How to reverse the order of first and last name in a Pandas Series

Question

I have a pandas series:

names = pd.Series([
\'Andre Agassi\',
\'Barry Bonds\',
\'Christopher Columbus\',
\'Daniel Defoe\',
\'Emilio Estevez\',
\'Fred Flintstone\         


        

Answer 1

Use .map combined with string methods like below:

names.map(lambda s: s.split()[1] + ', ' + s.split()[0])