Are cells failing in Colab due to Python 3.13 or Ubuntu 24.04? Classifying common cells by running them on old and new Python/Ubuntu versions (reproduced in Dock…

This article is for those whose notebook cells, which used to work in Google Colab, have started failing. According to Colab ...

In pandas 3.0, df.dtypes == object no longer picks up string columns—12 out of 31 ways of writing it change without warning (measured in 2.3.3 and 3.0.6)

When you upgrade code written in pandas 2.x to 3.0, lines that compare a dtype to object, such as df.dtypes == object, will ...