Pythonic/efficient way to strip whitespace from every Pandas Data frame cell that has a stringlike object in it

Question

I\'m reading a CSV file into a DataFrame. I need to strip whitespace from all the stringlike cells, leaving the other cells unchanged in Python 2.7.

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Answer 1

I found the following code useful and something that would likely help others. This snippet will allow you to delete spaces in a column as well as in the entire DataFrame, depending on your use case.

import pandas as pd

def remove_whitespace(x):
    try:
        # remove spaces inside and outside of string
        x = "".join(x.split())

    except:
        pass
    return x

# Apply remove_whitespace to column only
df.orderId = df.orderId.apply(remove_whitespace)
print(df)


# Apply to remove_whitespace to entire Dataframe
df = df.applymap(remove_whitespace)
print(df)