That said, what remains mystery is why the original one worked this morning. Strange!
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:15 PM Michio Suginoo <msugi...@reversalpoint.com> wrote: > 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
