pandas.Series.str.slice — pandas 2.2.3 documentation (original) (raw)

Series.str.slice(start=None, stop=None, step=None)[source]#

Slice substrings from each element in the Series or Index.

Parameters:

startint, optional

Start position for slice operation.

stopint, optional

Stop position for slice operation.

stepint, optional

Step size for slice operation.

Returns:

Series or Index of object

Series or Index from sliced substring from original string object.

Examples

s = pd.Series(["koala", "dog", "chameleon"]) s 0 koala 1 dog 2 chameleon dtype: object

s.str.slice(start=1) 0 oala 1 og 2 hameleon dtype: object

s.str.slice(start=-1) 0 a 1 g 2 n dtype: object

s.str.slice(stop=2) 0 ko 1 do 2 ch dtype: object

s.str.slice(step=2) 0 kaa 1 dg 2 caeen dtype: object

s.str.slice(start=0, stop=5, step=3) 0 kl 1 d 2 cm dtype: object

Equivalent behaviour to:

s.str[0:5:3] 0 kl 1 d 2 cm dtype: object