Feb 5, 2019 · I also have seen u"string" for, I think, Unicode strings. Now with Python 3 we see b"string". I have searched for these in different sources / questions, such as What does a b …

@Chandler.Huang this question is about identifying str and unicode on Python 2, or str on Python 3. If you don't want unicode to count on Python 2, just use str.

There are two types of string in Python 2: the traditional str type and the newer unicode type. If you type a string literal without the u in front you get the old str type which stores 8-bit …

Jan 19, 2016 · As a very brief explanation that isn't a full answer: If you use a string dtype in numpy, it's fundamentally a fixed-width c-like string. In pandas, they're "normal" python strings, …

Jan 30, 2011 · Is there a way to check if the type of a variable in python is a string, like: isinstance(x,int); for integer values?

May 6, 2015 · 38 numpy.string_ is the NumPy datatype used for arrays containing fixed-width byte strings. On the other hand, str is a native Python type and can not be used as a datatype …

Aug 1, 2025 · A pandas Series with dtype=object is a generic container. It doesn't store a specific, uniform data type like a Series with dtype=int64. Instead, it stores Python objcts of any type …

Nov 27, 2015 · 84 since strings data types have variable length, it is by default stored as object dtype. If you want to store them as string type, you can do something like this.

Sep 15, 2015 · Starting with v0.20.0, the dtype keyword argument in read_excel() function could be used to specify the data types that needs to be applied to the columns just like it exists for …

Nov 12, 2020 · I think this is a simple question, but I'm finding the numba documentation lacking on how to use string types with numpy arrays and dictionaries. I have a function I want to use …