It’s happening because your last column is empty so this becomes converted to NaN:
In [417]:
t="""'Name',97.7,0A,0A,65M,0A,100M,5M,75M,100M,90M,90M,99M,90M,0#,0N#,"""
df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(t), header=None)
df
Out[417]:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 \
0 'Name' 97.7 0A 0A 65M 0A 100M 5M 75M 100M 90M 90M 99M 90M 0#
15 16
0 0N# NaN
If you slice your range up to the last row then it works:
In [421]:
for col in df.columns[2:-1]:
df[col] = df[col].str.extract(r'(\d+\.*\d*)').astype(np.float)
df
Out[421]:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
0 'Name' 97.7 0 0 65 0 100 5 75 100 90 90 99 90 0 0 NaN
Alternatively you can just select the cols that are object dtype and run the code (skipping the first col as this is the ‘Name’ entry):
In [428]:
for col in df.select_dtypes([np.object]).columns[1:]:
df[col] = df[col].str.extract(r'(\d+\.*\d*)').astype(np.float)
df
Out[428]:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
0 'Name' 97.7 0 0 65 0 100 5 75 100 90 90 99 90 0 0 NaN