[FIXED] How to format string without leading zeros and + - as integer in python pandas?

Issue

I have rows in a column with strings in a pandas dataframe that look like this:

+0094
-0082

How would I replace all the values in the column so that they would be formatted like this:

 94
-82

Solution

I'd suggest to use pd.to_numeric as it provides more flexibility over .astype :

df['col'] = pd.to_numeric(df['col'])

Answered By - ThePyGuy