What is dtype('O'), in pandas?

Question

I have a dataframe in pandas and I\'m trying to figure out what the types of its values are. I am unsure what the type is of column \'Test\'. However, when I ru

Answer 1

'O' stands for object.

#Loading a csv file as a dataframe
import pandas as pd 
train_df = pd.read_csv('train.csv')
col_name = 'Name of Employee'

#Checking the datatype of column name
train_df[col_name].dtype

#Instead try printing the same thing
print train_df[col_name].dtype

The first line returns: dtype('O')

The line with the print statement returns the following: object