Replacing Unicode character in pandas Dataframe column
问题 I have a problem with a pandas Dataframe that amongst other things contains the number of rooms in an apartment (type String). This data consists of a unicode character u"\u00BD" (https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00bd/index.htm). How do i effectively replace this character with decimal values so that instead of the unicode character the data will read 2.5, 3.5, 4.5 etc (Still String format) . It currently looks like this: 2½, 3½, 4½ etc And i want the values in the column to be 2