Unable to convert pandas object to string

[Paul Barry]

Any chance you could post one line of data so we can see what we have to
work with?

Also - have you taken a look at Jake VanderPlas's notebooks? There's lot of
help with pandas to be found there:
https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook

Paul.

On 24 June 2017 at 10:32, Bhaskar Dhariyal <dhariyalbhaskar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
> Int64Index: 171594 entries, 0 to 63464
> Data columns (total 7 columns):
> project_id          171594 non-null object
> desc                171594 non-null object
> goal                171594 non-null float64
> keywords            171594 non-null object
> diff_creat_laun     171594 non-null int64
> diff_laun_status    171594 non-null int64
> diff_status_dead    171594 non-null int64
> dtypes: float64(1), int64(3), object(3)
>
> not able to convert desc and keywords to string for preprocessing.
> Tried astype(str). Please help
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