Create Empty Dataframe in Pandas specifying column types

Question

I\'m trying to create an empty data frame with an index and specify the column types. The way I am doing it is the following:

df = pd.DataFrame(index=[\'pbp\         


        

Answer 1

pandas doesn't offer pure integer column. You can either use float column and convert that column to integer as needed or treat it like an object. What you are trying to implement is not the way pandas is supposed to be used. But if you REALLY REALLY want that, you can get around the TypeError message by doing this.

df1 =  pd.DataFrame(index=['pbp'], columns=['str1','str2','str2'], dtype=str)
df2 =  pd.DataFrame(index=['pbp'], columns=['int1','int2'], dtype=int)
df3 =  pd.DataFrame(index=['pbp'], columns=['flt1','flt2'], dtype=float)
df = pd.concat([df1, df2, df3], axis=1)

    str1 str2 str2 int1 int2  flt1  flt2
pbp  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN   NaN   NaN

You can rearrange the col order as you like. But again, this is not the way pandas was supposed to be used.

 df.dtypes
str1     object
str2     object
str2     object
int1     object
int2     object
flt1    float64
flt2    float64
dtype: object

Note that int is treated as object.