How to drop DataFrame columns based on dtype

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You can use select_dtypes to exclude columns of a particular type.

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'x': ['a', 'b', 'c'], 'y': [1, 2, 3], 'z': ['d', 'e', 'f']})

df = df.select_dtypes(exclude=['object'])
print(df)