Convert char to int in C#

I have a char in c#: char foo = ‘2’; Now I want to get the 2 into an int. I find that Convert.ToInt32 returns the actual decimal value of the char and not the number 2. The following will work: int bar = Convert.ToInt32(new string(foo, 1)); int.parse only works on strings as well. Is … Read more

NumPy or Pandas: Keeping array type as integer while having a NaN value

Is there a preferred way to keep the data type of a numpy array fixed as int (or int64 or whatever), while still having an element inside listed as numpy.NaN? In particular, I am converting an in-house data structure to a Pandas DataFrame. In our structure, we have integer-type columns that still have NaN’s (but … Read more