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How do I melt a pandas dataframe?

On the pandas tag, I often see users asking questions about melting dataframes in pandas. I am gonna attempt a cannonical Q&A (self-answer) with this topic. I am gonna clarify: What is melt? How do I use melt? When do I use melt? I see some hotter questions about melt, like: Convert columns into rows with…

escaping square brackets from string in dataframe

I have a dataframe where i am try to clean the data from all cols. There are some annomalies in teh data like this: “[n], [ta], [cb]” basically anything in square brackets i want to ignore and replace with a space. I have this: this works except I still get the square brackets in the data but they…

Remove series of characters in pandas

Somewhat of a beginner in pandas. I am trying to clean data in a specific column by removing a series of characters. Currently the data looks like this: I need to remove the (F) I used … df[‘Column A’]=df[‘Column A’].str.replace(‘[(F)]’,’ ‘) This successfully removed the (F) but it also removed the other F le…