Description
Pandas version checks
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I have checked that this issue has not already been reported.
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I have confirmed this bug exists on the latest version of pandas.
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I have confirmed this bug exists on the main branch of pandas.
Reproducible Example
df.loc[index, 'column_name'].astype(str)Issue Description
astype(str) not working
Expected Behavior
object to str not working. dtype still object
Installed Versions
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : d9cdd2e
python : 3.12.4.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 11
Version : 10.0.22631
machine : AMD64
processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 151 Stepping 5, GenuineIntel
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : English_United States.1252
pandas : 2.2.2
numpy : 1.26.4
pytz : 2024.1
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
setuptools : 69.5.1
pip : 24.0
Cython : None
pytest : 7.4.4
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 7.3.7
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 5.2.1
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.4
IPython : 8.25.0
pandas_datareader : None
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : 4.12.3
bottleneck : 1.3.7
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2024.3.1
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.8.4
numba : 0.59.1
numexpr : 2.8.7
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.1.2
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 14.0.2
pyreadstat : None
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : 2024.3.1
scipy : 1.13.1
sqlalchemy : 2.0.30
tables : 3.9.2
tabulate : 0.9.0
xarray : 2023.6.0
xlrd : None
zstandard : 0.22.0
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : 2.4.1
pyqt5 : None