Pandas error “Can only use .str accessor with string values”

Question

I have the following input file:

\"Name\",97.7,0A,0A,65M,0A,100M,5M,75M,100M,90M,90M,99M,90M,0#,0N#,

And I am reading it in with:

Answer 1

I got this error while working in Eclipse. It turned out that the project interpreter was somehow (after an update I believe) reset to Python 2.7. Setting it back to Python 3.6 resolved this issue. It all resulted in several crashes, restarts and warnings. After several minutes of troubles it seems fixed now.

While I know this is not a solution to the problem posed here, I thought it might be useful for others, as I came to this page after searching for this error.