How can I split a column into 2 in the correct way?

Question

I am web-scraping tables from a website, and I am putting it to the Excel file. My goal is to split a columns into 2 columns in the correct way.

The columns what i want

Answer 1

You can use indexing with str with zfill:

df = pd.DataFrame({'FLIGHT':['KL744','BE1013']})


df['a'] = df['FLIGHT'].str[:2]
df['b'] = df['FLIGHT'].str[2:].str.zfill(4)
print (df)
   FLIGHT   a     b
0   KL744  KL  0744
1  BE1013  BE  1013

I believe in your code need:

df2 = pd.DataFrame(datatable,columns = cols)
df2['a'] = df2['FLIGHT'].str[:2]
df2['b'] = df2['FLIGHT'].str[2:].str.zfill(4)
df2["UPLOAD_TIME"] = datetime.now()
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