Strings in Floats

strs_in_floats.py

def strs_in_float(series):
  """ 
  Extracts the strings in what would otherwise be a Pandas Series of floats 
  For data cleaning.
  """
	def is_float(x):
		try:
			float(x)
			return False
		except:
			return True
	return series[series.apply(is_float)]