regex pandas column code example

Example 1: how to apply regex to pandas column

import re
#a string
str = '{63_:_foo},,bar,_mango_,apple'
#split string into chunks
chunks = re.split('[{_}:,][_,]',str)
#print chunks
print(chunks)

Example 2: pandas show column with regular expression

# Total items starting with F
S.str.count(r'(^F.*)').sum()