frame = pd.DataFrame({'a' : ['the cat is blue', 'the sky is green', 'the dog is black']})
frame
a
0 the cat is blue
1 the sky is green
2 the dog is black
The str.contains
method accepts a regular expression pattern:
mylist = ['dog', 'cat', 'fish']
pattern = '|'.join(mylist)
pattern
'dog|cat|fish'
frame.a.str.contains(pattern)
0 True
1 False
2 True
Name: a, dtype: bool
Because regex patterns are supported, you can also embed flags:
frame = pd.DataFrame({'a' : ['Cat Mr. Nibbles is blue', 'the sky is green', 'the dog is black']})
frame
a
0 Cat Mr. Nibbles is blue
1 the sky is green
2 the dog is black
pattern = '|'.join([f'(?i){animal}' for animal in mylist]) # python 3.6+
pattern
'(?i)dog|(?i)cat|(?i)fish'
frame.a.str.contains(pattern)
0 True # Because of the (?i) flag, 'Cat' is also matched to 'cat'
1 False
2 True
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