[Python] Bug? Can't convert object to strings after updating Anaconda (Jupyter Notebook)...

So I am following along a class and have managed to convert my other columns into what they need to be, however when trying to change my column 'Country' which is listed as object into a string, I just don't get the desired output (in fact I get no output).

transaction_df['Country'] = transaction_df['Country'].astype(str)


Doesn't seem to do anything, which I suppose is better than getting an error (..right? Help!)

No matter what I do, my output when I try transaction_df.dtypes is always as you see below. What am I doing wrong?

CustomerID int64
InvoiceNo int64
AmountSpent float64
InvoiceDate datetime64[ns]
Country object
dtype: object


If it helps the dataset was large and I had to add a condition of low_memory= False when getting the data.

New to all this. tx

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