I have some fields that have some junk in them from an upstream process. I\'m trying to delete \'\\r\\nName: hwowneremail, dtype: object\' from a column th
As far as I remember, Python Pandas was changed a little bit in replace. You should try passing over a regex keyword argument.
Like so;
report_df['Owner'].replace({'\r\nName: hwowneremail, dtype: object':''},regex=True)