pd.Series.astype
pandas.Series.astype(dtype, copy=True, errors="raise", _bodo_nan_to_str=True)
Supported Arguments
| argument | 
datatypes | 
other requirements | 
dtype | 
-    String (string must be parsable by 
np.dtype)  -   Valid type (see types)
 -    The following functions: float, int, bool, str 
 
  | 
Must be constant at   Compile Time | 
copy | 
Boolean | 
Must be constant at Compile Time | 
_bodo_nan_to_str | 
Boolean | 
-  Must be constant at Compile Time 
 -  Argument unique to  Bodo. When 
True NA values in when converting to string are represented as NA  instead of a string representation of the  NA value  'nan'), the default  Pandas behavior. 
  | 
Example Usage
>>> @bodo.jit
... def f(S):
...     return S.astype(np.float32)
>>> S = pd.Series(np.arange(1000))
>>> f(S)
0        0.0
1        1.0
2        2.0
3        3.0
4        4.0
      ...
995    995.0
996    996.0
997    997.0
998    998.0
999    999.0
Length: 1000, dtype: float32