Remove or delete last N characters of the column in Pandas

In This Section we will be focusing on how to remove the last N characters of the column in pandas. we have also explored two ways to remove or delete the last N Characters of the column in pandas with an example for each.

• Remove or delete last n characters from right of the column in pandas python in a roundabout way.
• Remove or delete last n characters of the column in pandas python using slice() function with stop parameters

Let’s Look at these cases with Example,

Create Dataframe:

## create dataframe 
import pandas as pd 
d = {'Day' : ['day1','day2','day3','day4'], 'Description' : ['First day of the year', 'Second day of the year', 'Third day of the year', 'FOURTH day of the YEAR']}
df=pd.DataFrame(d) 
df

Result dataframe is

Remove or delete Last N Character of the column in pandas:

Method1:

 Remove Last n character of the column in pandas can be done in by subsetting and deleting Last N Characters as shown below

#### Remove last n character of the column in pandas
#Method 1

df['Description'] = df['Description'].str[:-4]
df

Result:

Method 2:

Removing last n character of the column in pandas can be done by using slice() function with stop parameter as -4 which deletes or removes last 4 characters as shown below

#### Remove last n character of the column in pandas
#Method 2

df['Description'] = df['Description'].str.slice(stop=-4)
df

Result: