finding exact match for a word in pandas series

Question

I have a data frame given below

news                 score
testing tools           12
test match              32
he is testing           332
test is done             23

I want a result like this

news                        score
test match                   32
test is done                 23

ddf[ddf['news'].str.contains('test', regex= False)]

ddf[ddf['news'].str.contains('test', regex= False)]

Mehdi · Answer 1 · 2019-08-27T15:05:42.953

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Try this:

pattern = '/\btest\b/'
ddf[ddf['news'].str.contains(pattern, regex= True)]

For more information about regex pattern read this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13065780/2754195

edited Aug 27 '19 at 15:05

answered Aug 27 '19 at 14:58

Mehdi

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Hi Mehdi, Thanks for your response. I find out ddf[ddf['news'].str.contains(r'\b\W?test\W?\b', regex= True)] – Mahesh Kumar Aug 28 '19 at 06:00
Your welcome, if it helps you to find out the solution, please accept it :) – Mehdi Aug 30 '19 at 18:58

finding exact match for a word in pandas series

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