#function to find all the columns in dataframe which are object and convert them to float
def object_to_float(x):
object_columns = df.select_dtypes(include=['object']).columns
object_names = object_columns[1:] #only done in this case to handle sid
for column in object_names:
x[column] = x[column].astype(float)
object_to_float(df)
return x