How to extract specific content in a pandas dataframe with a regex?

Question

Consider the following pandas dataframe:

In [114]:

df[\'movie_title\'].head()

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Out[114]:

0     Toy Story (1995)
1     GoldenEye (1995)
2    Four Rooms (1         


        

Answer 1

You should assign text group(s) with () like below to capture specific part of it.

new_df['just_movie_titles'] = df['movie_title'].str.extract('(.+?) \(')
new_df['just_movie_titles']

pandas.core.strings.StringMethods.extract

StringMethods.extract(pat, flags=0, **kwargs)

Find groups in each string using passed regular expression