pandas.to_numeric()

pandas.to_numeric

pandas.to_numeric(arg, errors='raise')

Convert argument to a numeric type.

Parameters:

arg : list, tuple, 1-d array, or Series

errors : {‘ignore’, ‘raise’, ‘coerce’}, default ‘raise’

  • If ‘raise’, then invalid parsing will raise an exception
  • If ‘coerce’, then invalid parsing will be set as NaN
  • If ‘ignore’, then invalid parsing will return the input
Returns:

ret : numeric if parsing succeeded.

Return type depends on input