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Removing characters from columns in Pandas DataFrame
schedule Aug 12, 2023
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To remove characters from columns in Pandas DataFrame, use the replace(~) method.
Consider the following DataFrame:
df
A0 a1 ab2 cc
To remove all substring "a" from column A:
0 1 b2 ccName: A, dtype: object
To remove all substrings "a" or "b":
0 1 2 ccName: A, dtype: object
Here, [ab] is regex and matches any character that is a or b.
To remove substrings from Pandas DataFrame, please refer to our recipe here.
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