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 could map the data with a function that converts all the elements to True or False if they are equal to str-type or not, then just check if the list contains any False elements

The example below tests a list containing element other then str. It will tell you True if data of other type is present

test = [1, 2, '3']
False in map((lambda x: type(x) == str), test)

Output: True