Predictive Data Analysis with Python/

...

/

Replace and Rename

Replace and Rename

In this lesson, functions to replace values and renaming indexes are discussed.

We'll cover the following...

Replace values

The pandas package provides built-in functions to replace values in a Series and a DataFrame. The replace() function is called by both Series and DataFrame objects to execute this task.

Replace in Series #

The following example shows how to replace single and multiple values in a Series object.

Press + to interact
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
srs = pd.Series(['A','B','C','D','D','C','A','B'])
print("Original series:")
print(srs, '\n')
print("Single value changed in Series:")
print(srs.replace('A', np.nan), '\n')
print("Multiple values changed in Series:")
print(srs.replace(['A','C'], [1, 3]))

On line 10, a single value A is replaced with ...