Replace string/value in entire DataFrame

Question

I have a very large dataset were I want to replace strings with numbers. I would like to operate on the dataset without typing a mapping function for each key (column) in th

Answer 1

Use replace

In [126]: df.replace(['very bad', 'bad', 'poor', 'good', 'very good'], 
                     [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) 
Out[126]: 
      resp  A  B  C
   0     1  3  3  4
   1     2  4  3  4
   2     3  5  5  5
   3     4  2  3  2
   4     5  1  1  1
   5     6  3  4  1
   6     7  4  4  4
   7     8  5  5  5
   8     9  2  2  1
   9    10  1  1  1