pandas dataframe remove accents code example

Example 1: python remove accents pandas

In [60]:
df['Country'].str.normalize('NFKD').str.encode('ascii', errors='ignore').str.decode('utf-8')

Out[60]:
0    Aland Islands
1    Aland Islands
2          Albania
3          Albania
4          Albania
Name: Country, dtype: object

Example 2: python remove accents pandas

df['Country'] = df['Country'].str.replace(u"Å", "A")
df['City'] = df['City'].str.replace(u"ë", "e")