Using read_excel with converters for reading Excel file into Pandas DataFrame results in a numeric column of object type

Question

I am reading this Excel file United Nations Energy Indicators using the code snippet here:

def convert_energy(energy):
    if isinstance(energy, float):
             


        

Answer 1

try using isinstance(energy, int) instead of isinstance(energy, float).

like this->

def convert_energy(energy):
    if isinstance(energy, int):
         return float(energy*10^6)