Stripping all trailing empty spaces in a column of a pandas dataframe

Question

I have a pandas DF that has many string elements that contains words like this:

\'Frost                              \'
         


        

Answer 1

Replace your function with this:

rawlossDF['damage_description'] = rawlossDF['damage_description'].map(lambda x: x.strip())

You almost had it right, you needed to get rid off the '' inside strip()

Answer 2

Alternatively you could use str.strip method:

rawlossDF['damage_description'] = rawlossDF['damage_description'].str.strip()