pandas.Series.str.decode

Series.str.decode(encoding, errors='strict', dtype=None)[source]

Decode character string in the Series/Index using indicated encoding.

Equivalent to str.decode() in python2 and bytes.decode() in python3.

Parameters:

encoding:str

errors:str, optional

Specifies the error handling scheme. Possible values are those supported by bytes.decode().

dtype:str or dtype, optional

The dtype of the result. When not None, must be either a string or object dtype. When None, the dtype of the result is determined by pd.options.future.infer_string.

Added in version 2.3.0.

Returns:

Series or Index

Examples

For Series:

>>> ser = pd.Series([b'cow', b'123', b'()'])
>>> ser.str.decode('ascii')
0   cow
1   123
2   ()
dtype: object