Pandas replace nan with empty string

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In this post, We are going to learn pandas to replace nan with empty string or blank any missing value with ” “.We are going to use the DataFrames fillna() and replace() methods. The pandas dataframe fillna(” “) and replace() method will replace NAN/null values with an empty string or blank. We can also replace nan/null values with zero

Ways to Pandas replace nan with empty string

  • Replace():It can be used to replace ‘string’,’regx’,’dictionary’,’list’
  • fillna():It is used to replace NA/NAN

1. Pandas replace nan with empty string

In this example, We will discuss how to fill null/nan values with an empty strings.The first step, we will create a dataframe that has some data and nan/Null values in some columns that were added by using the numpy library. The Python numpy library is imported using “import numpy as np”.We fill nan/null value to dataframe columns by using np.nan attribute of the numpy library.Finally,We are replacing nan/null values of column “Math” with “”(empty string) using df.fillna()method.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
   
Student_dict = {
    'Name': ['Jack', 'Rack', np.nan],
    'Marks':[100.5,np.nan, np.nan],
    'Subject': [np.nan, 'Math', 'Music']
}
   
  
  
dfobj = pd.DataFrame(Student_dict)
  
  
dfobj['Marks'] = dfobj['Marks'].fillna("")
  
print (dfobj)

Output

   Name  Marks Subject
0  Jack  100.5     NaN
1  Rack           Math
2   NaN          Music

2. Pandas.fillna() replace Mutiple columns nan with empty string

In this example, We will discuss how to fill null/nan values with empty string.The first step, we will create a dataframe that has some data and nan/Null values in some columns that added by using the numpy library.

  • The Python numpy library is imported using “import numpy as np”.We fill nan/null value to dataframe columns by using np.nan attribute of numpy library
  • Finally,We are replacing nan/null values of columns of dataframe or entire datafrmae with “”(empty string) or blank using df.fillna()method by calling it with dataframe object.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
   
Student_dict = {
    'Name': ['Jack', 'Rack', np.nan],
    'Marks':[100.5,np.nan, np.nan],
    'Subject': [np.nan, 'Math', 'Music']
}
   
  
  
dfobj = pd.DataFrame(Student_dict)
  
  
dfobj = dfobj.fillna("")
  
print (dfobj)

Output

   Name  Marks Subject
0  Jack  100.5        
1  Rack           Math
2                Music

Pandas.Replace() specific column nan with empty string

In this python program example we will replace nan/null with empty string.We have created a dataframe that has nan/null values in some columns that are by using the numpy libaray np. nan attribute.

Finally using the dataframe.replace() method to replace null values with an empty string in the dataframe column “Math”. The replace() method two arguments

  • First the value we want to replace that is np.nan
  • Second the value we want to replace with that is 0.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
   
Student_dict = {
    'Name': ['Jack', 'Rack', np.nan],
    'Marks':[100.5,np.nan, np.nan],
    'Subject': [np.nan, 'Math', 'Music']
}
   
  
  
dfobj = pd.DataFrame(Student_dict)
  
  
dfobj['Marks'] = dfobj['Marks'].replace(np.nan, '', regex=True)
  
print (dfobj)

Output

   Name  Marks Subject
0  Jack  100.5     NaN
1  Rack           Math
2   NaN          Music

Pandas.Replace() multiple columns nan with empty string

In this python program example we will replace nan/null with empty string.We have created a dataframe that has nan/null values in some columns that are by using the numpy libaray np. nan attribute.

Finally using the dataframe.replace() method to replace null values with empty string for multiple columns “. The replace() method two arguments

  • First the value we want to replace that is np.nan
  • Second the value we want to replace with is 0.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
   
Student_dict = {
    'Name': ['Jack', 'Rack', np.nan],
    'Marks':[100.5,np.nan, np.nan],
    'Subject': [np.nan, 'Math', 'Music']
}
   
  
  
dfobj = pd.DataFrame(Student_dict)
  
  
dfobj = dfobj.replace(np.nan, '', regex=True)
  
print (dfobj)

Output

   Name  Marks Subject
0  Jack  100.5        
1  Rack           Math
2                Music

Summary

In this we have learned how to Pandas replace nan with empty string|blank by using dataframe.fillna() and dataframe.replace() methods.

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