Checking if a data series is strings

Question

I want to check if a column in a dataframe contains strings. I would have thought this could be done just by checking dtype, but that isn\'t the case. A pandas series that c

Answer 1

You can use this to see if all elements in a column are strings

df.applymap(type).eq(str).all()

a    False
b     True
c    False
dtype: bool

To just check if any are strings

df.applymap(type).eq(str).any()