I am not a very experienced Python user, so this might be a very easy question for some people. I have a couple of variables that are set as t or f indicating True or False. When I look up their datatype using df.info(), I see that these variables are objects. However, I want them to become booleans. I looked on the internet but I cannot find a way to do this easily. Is there anyone who can help me out with this problem?

CodePudding user response：

If you start with column with str values of 't' and 'f'

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(['t','f','t','f'], columns=['str'])
>>> df
  str
0   t
1   f
2   t
3   f

You can make a new column that does a string comparison that returns a bool representation

>>> df['bool'] = df['str'] == 't'
>>> df
  str   bool
0   t   True
1   f  False
2   t   True
3   f  False