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

If it is in a specific column (having name: column) of a data frame (having name: dataframe), you can also use

dataframe.column.str.replace("(::).*","")

It gives you the below result

         column        new_column       
0  vendor a::ProductA  vendor a
1  vendor b::ProductA  vendor b
2  vendor a::Productb  vendor a

By using this you need not specify any position, as it gets rid of anything present after '::'

I guess this might come oh help,Good luck!