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Python Introduction to pandas Exploring pandas Selecting Data

Posted by jun cheng wong
jun cheng wong
17,021 Points

How can I get rid of the []

file_name = 'employee_handbook.csv'
cid = 2603704587

with open(file_name, newline = '') as handbook:
    emp_handbook = pd.DataFrame(pd.read_csv(file_name))
    row_number = emp_handbook[emp_handbook['CID'] == cid].index.values
    name = emp_handbook.iloc[row_number,[1]].values
print(name)

output:

[['Jun Cheng']]

How can I get 'Jun Cheng' instead of '[[Jun Cheng]]'

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

If you are certain that only one row and only one data item will be assigned to name, perhaps print(name[0][0]) would work for you.

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

Hi. Jun!

That's just the way Python returns the CSV file row data (like a Python list).

To get ride of them, you could use something like this:

name = name.replace("[", "")
name = name.replace("]", "")
print(name)

More info/details:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41486716/removing-square-brackets-and-quotation-marks-which-are-added-to-rows-in-a-csv-fi

I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!