Convert Pandas series containing string to boolean

Question

I have a DataFrame named df as

  Order Number       Status
1         1668  Undelivered
2        19771  Undelivered
3    100032108  Undelivered
4         


        

Answer 1

You can just use map:

In [7]: df = pd.DataFrame({'Status':['Delivered', 'Delivered', 'Undelivered',
                                     'SomethingElse']})

In [8]: df
Out[8]:
          Status
0      Delivered
1      Delivered
2    Undelivered
3  SomethingElse

In [9]: d = {'Delivered': True, 'Undelivered': False}

In [10]: df['Status'].map(d)
Out[10]:
0     True
1     True
2    False
3      NaN
Name: Status, dtype: object