pandas.Series.str.join

Series.str.join(sep)

Join lists contained as elements in the Series/Index with passed delimiter.

If the elements of a Series are lists themselves, join the content of these lists using the delimiter passed to the function. This function is an equivalent to str.join().

Parameters

sepstr

Delimiter to use between list entries.

Returns

Series/Index: object

The list entries concatenated by intervening occurrences of the delimiter.

Raises

AttributeError

If the supplied Series contains neither strings nor lists.

See also

str.join

Standard library version of this method.

Series.str.split

Split strings around given separator/delimiter.

Notes

If any of the list items is not a string object, the result of the join will be NaN.

Examples

Example with a list that contains non-string elements.

>>> s = pd.Series([['lion', 'elephant', 'zebra'],
...                [1.1, 2.2, 3.3],
...                ['cat', np.nan, 'dog'],
...                ['cow', 4.5, 'goat'],
...                ['duck', ['swan', 'fish'], 'guppy']])
>>> s
0        [lion, elephant, zebra]
1                [1.1, 2.2, 3.3]
2                [cat, nan, dog]
3               [cow, 4.5, goat]
4    [duck, [swan, fish], guppy]
dtype: object

Join all lists using a ‘-’. The lists containing object(s) of types other than str will produce a NaN.

>>> s.str.join('-')
0    lion-elephant-zebra
1                    NaN
2                    NaN
3                    NaN
4                    NaN
dtype: object