Remove NaN 'Cells' without dropping the entire ROW (Pandas,Python3)

Question

Right now I have a DF like this

 Word       Word2          Word3
 Hello      NaN            NaN
 My         My Name        NaN
 Yellow     Yellow Bee     Yel         


        

Answer 1

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import functools

def drop_and_roll(col, na_position='last', fillvalue=np.nan):
    result = np.full(len(col), fillvalue, dtype=col.dtype)
    mask = col.notnull()
    N = mask.sum()
    if na_position == 'last':
        result[:N] = col.loc[mask]
    elif na_position == 'first':
        result[-N:] = col.loc[mask]
    else:
        raise ValueError('na_position {!r} unrecognized'.format(na_position))
    return result

df = pd.read_table('data', sep='\s{2,}')

print(df.apply(functools.partial(drop_and_roll, fillvalue='')))

yields

     Word         Word2            Word3
0   Hello       My Name  Yellow Bee Hive
1      My    Yellow Bee                 
2  Yellow  Golden Gates                 
3  Golden                               
4  Yellow