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I am trying to remove all rows in a Panda dataset that contain the symbol "+" anywhere in the row. So ideally this:

 Keyword +John Mary+Jim David

would become

 Keyword David

I've tried doing something like this in my code but it doesn't seem to be working.

excluded = ('+') removal2 = removal[~removal['Keyword'].isin(excluded)]

The problem is that sometimes the + is contained within a word, at the beginning of a word, or at the end. Any ideas how to help? Do I need to use an index function? Thank you!

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Use the vectorised str method contains and pass the '+' identifier, negate the boolean condition by using ~:

In [29]: df[~df.Keyword.str.contains('\+')] Out[29]: Keyword 2 David
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