I'm trying to remove certain values with that code, however pandas does not give me to, instead outputs
ValueError: Unable to coerce to Series, length must be 10: given 2
Here is my code:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("/Volumes/SSD/IT/DataSets/Automobile_data.csv")
print(df.shape)
columns_df = ['index', 'company', 'body-style', 'wheel-base', 'length', 'engine-type',
'num-of-cylinders', 'horsepower', 'average-mileage', 'price']
prohibited_symbols = ['?','Nan''n.a']
df = df[df[columns_df] != prohibited_symbols]
print(df)
Try:
df = df[~df[columns_df].str.contains('|'.join(prohibited_symbols))]
The regex operator '|' helps remove records that contain any of your prohibited symbols.
Because what you are trying is not doing what you imagine it should.
df = df[df[columns_df] != prohibited_symbols]
Above line will always return False values for everything. You can't iterate over a list of prohibited symbols like that. != will do only a simple inequality check and none of your cells will be equal to the list of prohibited symbols probably. Also using that syntax will not delete those values from your cells.
You'll have to use a for loop and clean every column like this.
for column in columns_df:
df[column] = df[column].str.replace('|'.join(prohibited_symbols), '', regex=True)
You can as well specify the values you consider as null with the na_values argument when reading the data and then use dropna from pandas.
Example:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("/Volumes/SSD/IT/DataSets/Automobile_data.csv", na_values=['?','Nan''n.a'])
df = df.dropna()
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I have a Pandas dataframe with several columns wherein the entries of each column are a combination of numbers, upper and lower case letters and some special characters:, i.e, "=A-Za-z0-9_|". Each entry of the column is of the form:
'x=ABCDefgh_5|123|'
I want to retain only the numbers 0-9 appearing only between | | and strip out all other characters. Here is my code for one column of the dataframe:
list(map(lambda x: x.lstrip(r'\[=A-Za-z_|,]+'), df[1]))
However, the code returns the full entry 'x=ABCDefgh_5|123|' without stripping out anything. Is there an error in my code?
Instead of working with these unreadable regex expressions, you might want to consider a simple split. For example:
import pandas as pd
d = {'col': ["x=ABCDefgh_5|123|", "x=ABCDefgh_5|123|"]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)
output = df["col"].str.split("|").str[1]
My csv file contains numeric data where some values have greater than or less than symbols e.g. ">244". I want my data type to be a float. When reading the file into pandas:
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv')
I get a warning:
Columns (2) have mixed types. Specify dtype option on import or set low_memory=False.
I have checked this question: Pandas read_csv: low_memory and dtype options and tried specifying the date type of the relevant column with:
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv',dtype={'column':'float'})
However, this gives an error:
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '>244'
I have also tried
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv',dtype={'column':'float'}, error_bad_lines=False)
However this does not solve my problem, and I get the same error above.
My problem appears to be that my data has a mixture of string and floats. Can I ignore any rows containing strings in particular columns when reading in the data?
You can use:
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv', dtype={'column':'str'})
Then:
df['column'] = pd.to_numeric(df['column'], errors='coerce')
I found a workaround which was read in my data
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv')
Then remove any values with '<' or '>'
df = df.loc[df['column'].str[:1] != '<']
df = df.loc[df['column'].str[:1] != '>']
Then convert to numeric with pd.to_numeric
df['column'] = pd.to_numeric(df['column'])
I am interested to loop through column to convert into processed series.
Below is an example of two row, four columns data frame:
import pandas as pd
from rapidfuzz import process as process_rapid
from rapidfuzz import utils as rapid_utils
data = [['r/o ac. nephritis. /. nephrotic syndrome', ' ac. nephritis. /. nephrotic syndrome',1,'ac nephritis nephrotic syndrome'], [ 'sternocleidomastoid contracture','sternocleidomastoid contracture',0,"NA"]]
# Create the pandas DataFrame
df_diagnosis = pd.DataFrame(data, columns = ['diagnosis_name', 'diagnosis_name_edited','is_spell_corrected','spell_corrected_value'])
I want to use spell_corrected_value column if is_spell_corrected column is more than 1. Else, use diagnosis_name_edited
At the moment, I have following code to directly use diagnosis_name_edited column. How do I make into if-else/lambda check for is_spell_corrected column?
unmapped_diag_series = (rapid_utils.default_process(d) for d in df_diagnosis['diagnosis_name_edited'].astype(str)) # characters (generator)
unmapped_processed_diagnosis = pd.Series(unmapped_diag_series) #
Thank you.
If I get you right, try out this fast solution using numpy.where:
df_diagnosis['new_column'] = np.where(df_diagnosis['is_spell_corrected'] > 1, df_diagnosis['spell_corrected_value'], df_diagnosis['diagnosis_name_edited'])
I need to fill a pandas dataframe in a list comprehension.
Although rows satisfying the criterias are appended to the dataframe.
However, at the end, dataframe is empty.
Is there a way to resolve this?
In real code, I'm doing many other calculations. This is a simplified code to regenerate it.
import pandas as pd
main_df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['a','b','c','d'])
main_df=main_df.append({'a':'a1', 'b':'b1','c':'c1', 'd':'d1'},ignore_index=True)
main_df=main_df.append({'a':'a2', 'b':'b2','c':'c2', 'd':'d2'},ignore_index=True)
main_df=main_df.append({'a':'a3', 'b':'b3','c':'c3', 'd':'d3'},ignore_index=True)
main_df=main_df.append({'a':'a4', 'b':'b4','c':'c4', 'd':'d4'},ignore_index=True)
print(main_df)
sub_df = pd.DataFrame()
df_columns = main_df.columns.values
def search_using_list_comprehension(row,sub_df,df_columns):
if row[0]=='a1' or row[0]=='a2':
dict= {a:b for a,b in zip(df_columns,row)}
print('dict: ', dict)
sub_df=sub_df.append(dict, ignore_index=True)
print('sub_df.shape: ', sub_df.shape)
[search_using_list_comprehension(row,sub_df,df_columns) for row in main_df.values]
print(sub_df)
print(sub_df.shape)
The problem is that you define an empty frame with sub_df = dp.DataFrame() then you assign the same variable within the function parameters and within the list comprehension you provide always the same, empty sub_df as parameter (which is always empty). The one you append to within the function is local to the function only. Another “issue” is using python’s dict variable as user defined. Don’t do this.
Here is what can be changed in your code in order to work, but I would strongly advice against it
import pandas as pd
df_columns = main_df.columns.values
sub_df = pd.DataFrame(columns=df_columns)
def search_using_list_comprehension(row):
global sub_df
if row[0]=='a1' or row[0]=='a2':
my_dict= {a:b for a,b in zip(df_columns,row)}
print('dict: ', my_dict)
sub_df = sub_df.append(my_dict, ignore_index=True)
print('sub_df.shape: ', sub_df)
[search_using_list_comprehension(row) for row in main_df.values]
print(sub_df)
print(sub_df.shape)
Is there a simple way to ignore all even/odd rows when reading a csv using pandas?
I know skiprows argument in pd.read_csv but for that I'll need to know the number of rows in advance.
The pd.read_csv skiprows argument accepts a callable, so you could use a lambda function. E.g.:
df = pd.read_csv(some_path, skiprows=lambda x: x%2 == 0)
A possible solution after reading would be:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv(some_path)
# remove odd rows:
df = df.iloc[::2]
# remove even rows:
df = df.iloc[1::2]