how to check the dtype of a column in python pandas

Question

I need to use different functions to treat numeric columns and string columns. What I am doing now is really dumb:

allc = list((agg.loc[:, (agg.dtypes==np.float64)|(agg.dtypes==np.int)]).columns)
for y in allc:
    treat_numeric(agg[y])    

allc = list((agg.loc[:, (agg.dtypes!=np.float64)&(agg.dtypes!=np.int)]).columns)
for y in allc:
    treat_str(agg[y])    

Is there a more elegant way to do this? E.g.

for y in agg.columns:
    if(dtype(agg[y]) == 'string'):
          treat_str(agg[y])
    elif(dtype(agg[y]) != 'string'):
          treat_numeric(agg[y])

Answer 1

You can access the data-type of a column with dtype:

for y in agg.columns:
    if(agg[y].dtype == np.float64 or agg[y].dtype == np.int64):
          treat_numeric(agg[y])
    else:
          treat_str(agg[y])