.replace() to replace elements in a Pandas DataFrame
MRAB
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Wed Aug 5 18:56:17 EDT 2020
On 2020-08-05 23:21, Michio Suginoo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have trouble with .replace() method in a Pandas DataFrame.
> My code is something like this:
> correction_dic1 = {'á': 'a', 'í': 'i', 'ú': 'u', 'ó': 'o'}
> df = df.replace({'Name' : correction_dic1})
> Basically, what I am trying to do here is to replace bowels with Spanish
> accent with a plain set of English alphabet in all the entries in the
> column called 'Name' in the dataframe, df.
>
> A strange thing is that it worked perfectly in the same Jupyter notebook
> this morning.
> But all of a sudden, it started not doing the replacement any more.
>
> Could anyone tell what could be the problem?
>
Does that replace characters in strings, or does it replace one string
with another, e.g. replace the string 'á' with the string 'a'?
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