Extract sub-string between 2 special characters from one column of Pandas DataFrame

Question

I have a Python Pandas DataFrame like this:

Name  
Jim, Mr. Jones
Sara, Miss. Baker
Leila, Mrs. Jacob
Ramu, Master. Kuttan 

I would like to ext

Answer 1

In [157]: df['Title'] = df.Name.str.extract(r',\s*([^\.]*)\s*\.', expand=False)

In [158]: df
Out[158]:
                   Name   Title
0        Jim, Mr. Jones      Mr
1     Sara, Miss. Baker    Miss
2     Leila, Mrs. Jacob     Mrs
3  Ramu, Master. Kuttan  Master

or

In [163]: df['Title'] = df.Name.str.split(r'\s*,\s*|\s*\.\s*').str[1]

In [164]: df
Out[164]:
                   Name   Title
0        Jim, Mr. Jones      Mr
1     Sara, Miss. Baker    Miss
2     Leila, Mrs. Jacob     Mrs
3  Ramu, Master. Kuttan  Master