How to determine whether a column/variable is numeric or not in Pandas/NumPy?

Question

Is there a better way to determine whether a variable in Pandas and/or NumPy is numeric or not ?

I have a self defined

Answer 1

This is a pseudo-internal method to return only the numeric type data

In [27]: df = DataFrame(dict(A = np.arange(3), 
                             B = np.random.randn(3), 
                             C = ['foo','bar','bah'], 
                             D = Timestamp('20130101')))

In [28]: df
Out[28]: 
   A         B    C                   D
0  0 -0.667672  foo 2013-01-01 00:00:00
1  1  0.811300  bar 2013-01-01 00:00:00
2  2  2.020402  bah 2013-01-01 00:00:00

In [29]: df.dtypes
Out[29]: 
A             int64
B           float64
C            object
D    datetime64[ns]
dtype: object

In [30]: df._get_numeric_data()
Out[30]: 
   A         B
0  0 -0.667672
1  1  0.811300
2  2  2.020402