Explore puzzles designed to enhance your critical thinking and problem-solving skills using pandas. Gain insights into common pitfalls and sharpen your data manipulation techniques.

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Puzzles are a great way to practice your critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This course assumes a basic understanding of pandas.  The teasers and puzzles in this course are designed to help you practice what you already know and help avoid future mistakes.

Pandas Brain Teasers

# Try it yourself
Try executing the code below to see the result.

import pandas as pd

heros = pd.Series(['Batman', 'Wonder Woman', 'Superman'])
if heros.str.find('Iron Man').any():
  print('Wrong universe')
else:
  print('DC')

Python's `str.find` documentation says the following:
> "Return the lowest index in the string where substring *`sub`* is found within the
slice `s[start:end]`. Optional arguments *`start`* and *`end`* are interpreted as in slice notation. Return `-1` if *`sub`* is not found."


Understand how to use find and any in a Pandas series.

Before We Begin

Puzzles

Wrapping Up

Find Values in a Pandas Series

Try it yourself