polars.Series.cast¶

Series.cast(dtype: Union[Type[polars.datatypes.DataType], Type[int], Type[float], Type[str], Type[bool], polars.datatypes.DataType], strict: bool = True) → polars.internals.series.Series¶

Cast between data types.

Parameters

dtype: DataType to cast to
strict: Throw an error if a cast could not be done for instance due to an overflow

Examples

>>> s = pl.Series("a", [True, False, True])
>>> s
shape: (3,)
Series: 'a' [bool]
[
    true
    false
    true
]

>>> s.cast(pl.UInt32)
shape: (3,)
Series: 'a' [u32]
[
    1
    0
    1
]

polars.Series.argsort polars.Series.ceil