Remove values from one column, that are equal to the value in another

Question

I currently have two columns:

Word          Sentence
apple         [this, fruit, is, an, apple]
orange        [orange, is, this, fruit]
grape         [this, is, grape]
strawberry    [strawberry, is, nice]

How would I go about removing the value that appears in df['Word'] from df['Sentence'] so that the output would be:

Word          Sentence
apple         [this, fruit, is, an]
orange        [is, this, fruit]
grape         [this, is]
strawberry    [is, nice]

I am currently trying to use this while loop, which is not very pythonic.

count_row = df.shape[0]

i=0

while i < count_row :

    mylist = df.iloc[i]["Sentence"]

    mykeyword = df.iloc[i]["Word"]

    mylist = mylist.split()


    for word in mylist:

        if word == mykeyword:

            df.iloc[i]["Sentence"] = df.iloc[i]["Sentence"].replace(word, '')

    print(i)
    i=i+1

However, the loop is not removing the values. What is the best way to achieve the desired output?

Answer 1

How about something like...

def remove_name(r): 
    r['Sentence'] = [w for w in r['Sentence'] if w != r['Word']]
    return r

df.apply(remove_name,axis=1)

Apply lets us perform operations like this all at once, no iterations required.

Answer 2

You can use remove function to remove an element from a list.

Syntax: list.remove(element)

Where 'list' is your sentence list and 'element' is your fruit name to be removed.

To know more about remove function refer python docs or this link: https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/methods/list/remove