Converting text data into numeric to use SVM

[mukhan169]

I dont know enough python to convert my text data into int. If someone can guide me into right direction (tutorial, example) to convert the text data to int that will be greatly appreciated.

In Python you convert string to int with built-in function int().

Some examples:

>>> int('10')
10
>>> int('0010')
10
>>> int('1.0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1.0'

Yes I am but i want to use tf and itf. I cant hard code a number to a string as their will be over 100 k records. once i have converted string to tf and itf I should be able to use the SVM algorithm.
Does it make any more sense?