How to iterate over Pandas Data frame and replace multiple rows

Question

[Jakpa]

Hello everyone,

This is first 5 rows of my Pandas df:

target_data.head()

0   Stage II
1   Stage III
2   Stage II
3   Stage IV
4   Stage II

The df has 428 rows and its just one column. The rows have Stage I, II, III, and IV.

I want to replace Stage I, II, III and IV with Grade I, II; III, and IV respectively.

I used the replace Method like this :

target_data.replace("Stage II", 
       "Grade II",
      inplace =True )

Which actually did the replacement. However, with this, I have to write the line of code 4times which seems not to be ok by me.

I try using :

for index, row in target_data.iterrows():

        row.replace("Stage II", "Grade II" )
        row.replace("Stage I", "Grade I" )
        row.replace("Stage III", "Grade III" )
        row.replace("Stage IV", "Grade IV" )

But, It did not yield what I want. I know that there is something am not doing properly.

How do I iterate over my df using the iterrows to achieve what I want? or any other method to obtain my desired result will be appreciated.

Regards,

Answer 1

[Jakpa]

solved!

for i in ["Stage I", "Stage II", "Stage III", "Stage IV"]:

    target_data["BlcaGrade"] = target_data["BlcaGrade"].str.replace(i, "Grade " + i.split()[-1])