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Removing backslashes from values in a Pandas dataframe

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5286...

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[replace]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/st...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 12


You can use replace

df = df.replace(to_replace= r'\\', value= '', regex=True)



ANSWER 2

Score 0


I prefer to use the string API for each column.

for col in df:
    df[col] = df[col].str.replace(r'\\','')