Pandas - find first non-null value in column

Question

If I have a series that has either NULL or some non-null value. How can I find the 1st row where the value is not NULL so I can report back the datatype to the user. If th

Answer 1

You can also use get method instead

(Pdb) type(audio_col)

(Pdb) audio_col.first_valid_index()
19
(Pdb) audio_col.get(first_audio_idx)
'first-not-nan-value.ogg'