pandas replace multiple values one column

Question

In a column risklevels I want to replace Small with 1, Medium with 5 and High with 15. I tried:

dfm.replace({\'risk\':{\'Small\': \'1\'}},{\'risk\':{\'Medium         


        

Answer 1

You could define a dict and call map

In [256]:

df = pd.DataFrame({'a':['Small', 'Medium', 'High']})
df
Out[256]:
        a
0   Small
1  Medium
2    High

[3 rows x 1 columns]
In [258]:

vals_to_replace = {'Small':'1', 'Medium':'5', 'High':'15'}
df['a'] = df['a'].map(vals_to_replace)
df
Out[258]:
    a
0   1
1   5
2  15

[3 rows x 1 columns]


In [279]:

val1 = [1,5,15]
df['risk'].update(pd.Series(val1))
df
Out[279]:
  risk
0    1
1    5
2   15

[3 rows x 1 columns]