Extract last n characters from right of the column in pandas python

Last n characters from right of the column in pandas python can be extracted in a roundabout way. Let’s see how to return last n characters from right of column in pandas with an example.

We have explored two ways

• Extract or return last n characters of the pandas column using subset
• Extract or return last n character of the pandas column using slice() function with start parameters

First let’s create a dataframe

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Create a DataFrame
df1 = {
    'State':['Arizona AZ','Georgia GG','Newyork NY','Indiana IN','Florida FL'],
   'Score':[62,47,55,74,31]}

df1 = pd.DataFrame(df1,columns=['State','Score'])
df1

df1 will be

Extract Last n characters from right of the column in pandas:

Method 1:

str[-n:] is used to get last n character of column in pandas

df1['Stateright'] = df1['State'].str[-2:]
df1

str[-2:] is used to get last two character of column in pandas and it is stored in another column namely Stateright so the resultant dataframe will be

Method 2:

Slice() function with start parameters value -2 will extract the last 2 characters of the column as shown below.

### Extract last n character of the column in pandas
##Method 2
df1['Stateright'] = df1['State'].str.slice(start=-2)
df1

Result: