Does pandas have a built-in string matching function for exact matches and not regex? The code below for tropical_two has a slightly higher count. Documentation tells me it does a regex search.
tropical = reviews['description'].map(lambda x: "tropical" in x).sum()
print(tropical)
tropical_two = reviews['description'].str.count("tropical").sum()
print(tropical_two)
The first way is the answer key from Kaggle but something about it seems less readable and intuitive to me compared to a .str function because when I run this it returns True instead of 2 so I am a little confused about if the answer key method is actually counting all occurrences of "tropical" and not just the first.
def in_str(text):
return "tropical" in text
in_str("tropical is tropical")
First 2 lines of dataframe:
0 Italy Aromas include tropical fruit, broom, brimston... Vulkà Bianco 87 NaN Sicily & Sardinia Etna NaN Kerin O’Keefe @kerinokeefe Nicosia 2013 Vulkà Bianco (Etna) White Blend Nicosia
1 Portugal This is ripe and fruity, a wine that is smooth... Avidagos 87 15.0 Douro NaN NaN Roger Voss @vossroger Quinta dos Avidagos 2011 Avidagos Red (Douro) Portuguese Red Quinta dos Avidagos
Notebook here, tropical code in cell #2 https://www.kaggle.com/mikexie0/exercise-summary-functions-and-maps
You may use str.count with word boundary markers to match the exact search term:
tropical_two = reviews['description'].str.count(r'\btropical\b').sum()
print(tropical_two)
There may not be the need for a separate exact API, as str.count can be used for exact matches as well.