[Python] Int too large to convert to C long while doing .astype(int)

I'm running a python script, where I have to convert a string column from a pandas df to int, using the astype(int) method. However, I get this following error:

"Python int too large to convert to C long"


My strings are all numbers in string format, up to 15 characters. Is there a way to convert this column to int type without this popping this error?

Continue reading...