Pandas DataFrame dtypes Property | Find DataType of Columns

Pandas DataFrame is a two-dimensional size-mutable, potentially heterogeneous tabular data structure with labeled axes (rows and columns). 

Pandas DataFrame.dtypes attribute returns a series with the data type of each column.

Example:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'Weight': [45, 88, 56, 15, 71],
                   'Name': ['Sam', 'Andrea', 'Alex', 'Robin', 'Kia'],
                   'Age': [14, 25, 55, 8, 21]})
index_ = ['Row_1', 'Row_2', 'Row_3', 'Row_4', 'Row_5']
df.index = index_
print(df)

Output: 

Example Output

 Syntax

Syntax: DataFrame.dtypes 

Parameter : None 

Returns : data type of each column

Examples

Let’s check some examples of how to find the data type of each column of a DataFrame using the dtypes property of DataFrame.

Example 1:

Now we will use the dtypes attribute to find out the data type of each column in the given DataFrame. 

# return the dtype of each column
result = df.dtypes

# Print the result
print(result)

Output: 

As we can see in the output, the DataFrame.dtypes attribute has successfully returned the data types of each column in the given Dataframe.   

Example output

Example 2:

Use the DataFrame dtypes attribute to find out the data type (dtype) of each column in the given DataFrame. 

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Creating the DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({& quot
                    A&quot: [12, 4, 5, None, 1],
                    & quot
                    B&quot
                    : [7, 2, 54, 3, None],
                    & quot
                    C&quot
                    : [20, 16, 11, 3, 8],
                    & quot
                    D&quot
                    : [14, 3, None, 2, 6]})

# Create the index
index_ = ['Row_1', 'Row_2', 'Row_3', 'Row_4', 'Row_5']

# Set the index
df.index = index_

# Print the DataFrame
print(df)

Output:

example output

 Now we will use DataFrame.dtypes attribute to find out the data type of each column in the given DataFrame. 

# return the dtype of each column
result = df.dtypes

# Print the result
print(result)

Output:

As we can see in the output, the DataFrame.dtypes attribute has successfully returned the data types of each column in the given DataFrame.

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