Python pandas: remove everything after a delimiter in a string

Question

I have data frames which contain e.g.:

"vendor a::ProductA"
"vendor b::ProductA"
"vendor a::Productb"

I need to

Answer 1

You can use str.replace(":", " ") to remove the "::". To split, you need to specify the character you want to split into: str.split(" ")

The trim function is called strip in python: str.strip()

Also, you can do str[:7] to get just "vendor x" in your strings.

Good luck