Convert entire data frame from lowercase to uppercase with Pandas

Question

I have a dataframe as shown below:

# Create an example dataframe about a fictional army
raw_data = {'regiment': ['Nighthawks', 'Nighthawks', 'Nighthawks', 'Nighthawks'],
            'company': ['1st', '1st', '2nd', '2nd'],
            'deaths': ['kkk', 52, '25', 616],
            'battles': [5, '42', 2, 2],
            'size': ['l', 'll', 'l', 'm']}
df = pd.DataFrame(raw_data, columns = ['regiment', 'company', 'deaths', 'battles', 'size'])

My goal is to convert each line inside the data frame to uppercase so that it looks like this:

Note: all data types are objects and should not be changed; output should contain all objects. I want to avoid converting each individual column one by one ... I would like to do this, as a rule, in the entire data area, perhaps.

What I have tried so far is to do this, but to no avail

df.str.upper()

Answer 1

astype() dtype object (string), str() , (). , dtype .

In [17]: df
Out[17]: 
     regiment company deaths battles size
0  Nighthawks     1st    kkk       5    l
1  Nighthawks     1st     52      42   ll
2  Nighthawks     2nd     25       2    l
3  Nighthawks     2nd    616       2    m

In [18]: df.apply(lambda x: x.astype(str).str.upper())
Out[18]: 
     regiment company deaths battles size
0  NIGHTHAWKS     1ST    KKK       5    L
1  NIGHTHAWKS     1ST     52      42   LL
2  NIGHTHAWKS     2ND     25       2    L
3  NIGHTHAWKS     2ND    616       2    M

"" , to_numeric():

In [42]: df2 = df.apply(lambda x: x.astype(str).str.upper())

In [43]: df2['battles'] = pd.to_numeric(df2['battles'])

In [44]: df2
Out[44]: 
     regiment company deaths  battles size
0  NIGHTHAWKS     1ST    KKK        5    L
1  NIGHTHAWKS     1ST     52       42   LL
2  NIGHTHAWKS     2ND     25        2    L
3  NIGHTHAWKS     2ND    616        2    M

In [45]: df2.dtypes
Out[45]: 
regiment    object
company     object
deaths      object
battles      int64
size        object
dtype: object

Answer 2

str , , :

In [6]: pd.concat([df[col].astype(str).str.upper() for col in df.columns], axis=1)
Out[6]: 
     regiment company deaths battles size
0  NIGHTHAWKS     1ST    KKK       5    L
1  NIGHTHAWKS     1ST     52      42   LL
2  NIGHTHAWKS     2ND     25       2    L
3  NIGHTHAWKS     2ND    616       2    M

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In [10]: %timeit df.apply(lambda x: x.astype(str).str.upper())
100 loops, best of 3: 3.32 ms per loop

In [11]: %timeit pd.concat([df[col].astype(str).str.upper() for col in df.columns], axis=1)
100 loops, best of 3: 3.32 ms per loop

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In [15]: df = pd.concat(10000 * [df])

In [16]: %timeit pd.concat([df[col].astype(str).str.upper() for col in df.columns], axis=1)
10 loops, best of 3: 104 ms per loop

In [17]: %timeit df.apply(lambda x: x.astype(str).str.upper())
10 loops, best of 3: 130 ms per loop

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