Hi Bob and MRAB, Both of you, very kind. Thanks. I tried with DataFrame as my original code, but this time, I inserted regex=True and it worked. Thank you very much! Best
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:50 PM Bob van der Poel <b...@mellowood.ca> wrote: > I don't think that string.replace() has an option for a dictionary of > replacements ... mind you, it might be nice if it did. In the meantime, > have you tried looping through the dictionary and changing each possible > character? > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 5:12 PM Michio Suginoo <msugi...@reversalpoint.com> > wrote: > >> Hi MRAB, >> >> Sorry, I simply do not understand the intention of your statement. >> If .replace() does not do what I want to do: to replace all ' í ' with >> 'i' >> in any form . >> Could you advise me other means to do it? >> >> I am still a learner, so I am not knowledgeable. But, I presume, this sort >> of needs--to replace parts of string, not an entire string--should be >> common. >> So, I would presume, there must be some popular way to do it. >> If you know, I would appreciate it if you could advise me. >> >> Thanks. >> Best >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:38 PM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> >> > On 2020-08-06 00:06, Michio Suginoo wrote: >> > > Hi MRAB, >> > > >> > > Here is an example: >> > > In the original dataframe, I have something like, 'Agronomía'. And I >> > > try to transform it to 'Agronomia'. >> > > In this case, I try to replace í with i: the former with a Spanish >> > > accent, the latter without. >> > > >> > That's what you want it to do, but what does it _actually_ do? Does it >> > _actually_ replace characters in a string, or only match and replace >> > entire strings? >> > >> > If you have a dataframe that contains the strings 'Agronomía' and 'í', >> > does it leave 'Agronomía' as-is but replace 'í' with 'i'? >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:00 PM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com >> > <mailto:pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote: >> > > >> > > 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'? >> > > >> > -- >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > > -- > > **** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** > Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** > EMAIL: b...@mellowood.ca > WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
