add a string prefix to each value in a string column using Pandas

Question

I would like to append a string to the start of each value in a said column of a pandas dataframe (elegantly). I already figured out how to kind-of do this and I am currentl

Answer 1

You can use pandas.Series.map :

df['col'].map('str{}'.format)

It will apply the word "str" before all your values.