I have a dataset, where, in one column I would like to replace the '.' with a ' ' or space.
note - the Date is an object type
Data
Date Type
Q1.27 A
Q2.27 B
Desired
Date Type
Q1 27 A
Q2 27 B
Doing
df['Date'] = df['Date'].replace('.','', regex=True)
However this eliminates the full value. Any suggestion is appreciated. I think I may need to incorporate a split since the code is instructing the value to be replaced by a space.
CodePudding user response:
In a regular expression, .
is a wildcard that matches any character. So you're replacing all characters with an empty string. Use regex=False
to make this a literal string instead of a regular expression.
And you said you wanted the replacement to be a single space, not an empty string.
df['Date'] = df['Date'].str.replace('.',' ', regex=False)
CodePudding user response:
df['Date'] =df['Date'].str.replace('\.',' ',regex=True)
Date Type
0 Q1 27 A
1 Q2 27 B