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 prefix before a …

@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.

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, thus the object type.

Jan 24, 2013 · See String Formatting Operations for more details. As an alternative, as of Python 2.6 and up you can also use a different form of string formatting using the .format() method:

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 characters, and with the …

Mar 24, 2023 · You don't have a type stored as a string. You have a string which mypy can interpret as int | str. eval works because it's a superset of what you want, which is to parse and evaluate a type …

Nov 16, 2025 · For Python, this type points to a single char so we have to cast it to get the whole string after searchtest is done. We cast to c_char_p because we just want to read the value so a const …

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 read_csv() …

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?

14 Given a list of python strings, how can I automatically convert them to their correct type? Meaning, if I have: