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

Have a look at str.extract.

The regexp you are looking for is (?<=, )\w+(?=.). In words: take the substring that is preceded by , (but do not include), consists of at least one word character, and ends with a . (but do not include). In future, use an online regexp tester such as regex101; regexps become rather trivial that way.

This is assuming each entry in the Name column is formatted the same way.