pandas.Series.str.replace

Replace occurrences of pattern/regex in the Series/Index with some other string. Equivalent to str.replace() or re.sub().

param pat

str or compiled regex

String can be a character sequence or regular expression.

New in version 0.20.0.

param repl

str or callable

Replacement string or a callable. The callable is passed the regex match object and must return a replacement string to be used. See re.sub().

New in version 0.20.0.

param n

int, default -1 (all)

Number of replacements to make from start.

param case

bool, default None

• If True, case sensitive (the default if pat is a string)

• Set to False for case insensitive

• Cannot be set if pat is a compiled regex

param flags

int, default 0 (no flags)

• re module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE

• Cannot be set if pat is a compiled regex

param regex

bool, default True

• If True, assumes the passed-in pattern is a regular expression.

• If False, treats the pattern as a literal string

• Cannot be set to False if pat is a compiled regex or repl is

  a callable.

New in version 0.23.0.

return

Series or Index of object A copy of the object with all matching occurrences of pat replaced by repl.

raises

ValueError

• if regex is False and repl is a callable or pat is a compiled

  regex

• if pat is a compiled regex and case or flags is set

Warning

This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler