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schedule Mar 10, 2022
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expand_more Consider the following Pandas DataFrame with a column of strings:
df
A0 a1 ab2 abc
To remove the first n
characters from values from column A
from this DataFrame:
df["A"].str[1:]
0 1 b2 bcName: A, dtype: object
Note that a new DataFrame is returned here and the original is kept intact.
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