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Removing last n characters from column values in Pandas DataFrame

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Consider the following Pandas DataFrame with a column of strings:

df = pd.DataFrame({"A":["a","ab","abc"]})
df
A
0 a
1 ab
2 abc

To remove the last n characters from values from column A:

df["A"].str[:-1]
0
1 a
2 ab
Name: A, dtype: object

Here, we are removing the last 1 character from each value. Note that a new DataFrame is returned here and the original is kept intact.

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