How to translate “bytes” objects into literal strings in pandas Dataframe, Python3.x?

Question

I have a Python3.x pandas DataFrame whereby certain columns are strings which as expressed as bytes (like in Python2.x)

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame         


        

Answer 1

df.columns = [x.decode("utf-8") for x in df.columns]

This will make it faster and easier.