Fwd: Unable to convert pandas object to string

Forgot to include this reply to the list (as others may want to comment). -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Barry Date: 24 June 2017 at 12:21 Subject: Re: Unable to convert pandas object to string To: Bhaskar Dhariyal Note that .info(), according to its docs, gives you a

Fw: Unable to convert pandas object to string

From: Albert-Jan Roskam Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 11:26:26 AM To: Paul Barry Subject: Re: Unable to convert pandas object to string (sorry for top posting) Try using fillna('') to convert np.nan into empty strings. df['desc'] = df.

Re: Unable to convert pandas object to string

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 wrote: > ​ > train.csv >

Re: Unable to convert pandas object to string

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 Dhariya

Unable to convert pandas object to string

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