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Asked: May 17, 20222022-05-17T13:51:47+00:00 2022-05-17T13:51:47+00:00In: python

Learn how to fix error: cannot convert the series to

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I’m trying to run a new project. I do a couple of things like this:

date A
 2001-01-02 1.0022
 2001-01-03 1.1033
 2001-01-04 1.1496
 2001-01-05 1.1033
 
 2015-03-30 126.3700
 2015-03-31 124.4300
 2015-04-01 124.2500
 2015-04-02 124.8900
df["B"] = math.log(df["A"] / df["A"].shift(1))
df["B"] .astype(float)

But in my program, I am getting the warning:

TypeError: cannot convert the series to <class 'float'>

Can someone explain why the “cannot convert the series to” issue happened? Where have I gone wrong? Thank you!

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    2022-06-05T16:07:53+00:00Added an answer on June 5, 2022 at 4:07 pm

    The cause:

    This error occurs due to you just write df["A"].astype(float), it can not change df .

    Solution:

    You can resolve this error by assigning the output of the astype method call to another method, consist of the existing series by using df['A'] = df['A'].astype(float). The other way to solve this issue is that you can either use numpy as @user3582076 suggestions or  .apply on the Series that is a result of dividing today’s value by yesterday’s.

     

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  2. Adam Blondeau
    2022-05-25T20:02:08+00:00Added an answer on May 25, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    To apply your functions to either the pandas series or data frame, you can use the lambda operator. You can convert every element in a column to an floating point number by using the lambda operator.

    df['A'].apply(lambda x: float(x))

    Here, the lambda operator will take values from that column (as “x”) and return them as a floating value.

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