How to remove substrings from column rows if substrings aren't part of dictionary's values?

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I have this simplified DataFrame:

A	B
foo	A, B, C, D

I create a dictionary d:

d = {'foo': 'A, B, C'}

Dictionary keys are in column A and their values are in column B. How can I remove any substrings that aren’t part of my dictionary’s values?

Desired DataFrame:

A	B
foo	A, B, C

Asked By: Luka Banfi

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Answer 1

If need compare by spiltted values by , use:

d = {'foo': 'A, B, C'}

f = lambda x: ', '.join(y for y in x.B.split(', ') if y in x.A.split(', '))
df['B'] = df.assign(A = df['A'].map(d)).apply(f, axis=1)
print (df)
     A        B
0  foo  A, B, C

Answered By: jezrael

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