ENH: Allow dictionaries to be passed to pandas.Series.str.replace · Issue #51748 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

Feature Type

Problem Description

I often want to replace various strings in a Series with an empty string and it would be nice to be able to do so in one call passing dictionary rather than chaining multiple .str.replace calls.

Alternatively I can use the regex flag and use some OR logic there but I think it would be much cleaner and more consistent with other functions to be able to pass a dictionary in my opinion.

How it currently works

messy_series = pd.Series( data=['A', 'B_junk', 'C_gunk'], name='my_messy_col', )

clean_series = messy_series.str.replace('_junk', '').str.replace('_gunk', '') clean_series = messy_series.str.replace('_junk|_gunk', '', regex=True)

How I'd like for it work

messy_series = pd.Series( data=['A', 'B_junk', 'C_gunk'], name='my_messy_col', )

clean_series = messy_series.str.replace({'_gunk':'', '_junk':''})

Curious folks' thoughts, thanks y'all!!

Feature Description

A simple way to solve the problem would be inspect if a dictionary is passed to str.replace, and if so iterate over the items of the dictionary and simply call replace on each key/value pair.

If this is an acceptable way to do it from the maintainers' perspectives then I'd happily submit such a PR.

Alternative Solutions

As mentioned above, both the following indeed currently work:

messy_series = pd.Series( data=['A', 'B_junk', 'C_gunk'], name='my_messy_col', )

clean_series = messy_series.str.replace('_junk', '').str.replace('_gunk', '') clean_series = messy_series.str.replace('_junk|_gunk', '', regex=True)

Additional Context

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