Unable to convert pandas object to string

[Paul Barry]

Hi Bhaskar.

Please see attached PDF of a small Jupyter notebook.  As you'll see, the
data in the fields you mentioned are *already* strings.  What is it you are
trying to do here?

Paul.

On 24 June 2017 at 10:51, Bhaskar Dhariyal <dhariyalbhaskar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​
>  train.csv
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1D4AyluMGU0enoxbElGTV94Q0E/view?usp=drive_web>
> ​here it is thanks for quick reply
>
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Paul Barry <paul.james.barry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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/jake
>> vdp/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
>>> --
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Lecturer, Computer Networking: Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland.
>>
>
>


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