I have a dataframe with following dtype: [2020-02-06 19:15:06,579] {logging_mixin.py:95} INFO - campanha object chave_sistema_origem int64 valor_ajustado object The column valor_ajustado has some value that is throwing me an exception when I try to write a parquet file using df.to_parquet(buffer, index=False) [2020-02-06 19:15:06,597] {taskinstance.py:1047} ERROR - an integer is required (got type str) ... File "/Users/jackhammer/.virtualenvs/python373/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py", line 540, in convert_column result = pa.array(col, type=type_, from_pandas=True, safe=safe) File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 207, in pyarrow.lib.array File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 78, in pyarrow.lib._ndarray_to_array I know that column valor_ajustado has values like: 0 123,48 1 493,987 Anyone knows why it's trying to manipulate integers instead of keep column as an object? Continue reading...