find a word in the sentences and replace whole sentence with a number

Question

I'm a beginner. I have 757 rows with a different statement. I would like to write a command to find the statement with "e-bike" and replace it with the number 1: 1st statement : "a conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, a conflict between two cyclists, a conflict between e-biker and a cyclist" 2nd statement: "a conflict relating to a dog(s), a conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, a conflict between an e-biker and a pedestrian, a conflict between e-biker and a cyclist" If I want to replace one by one I have to write the 757 command.

Thanks

Elham

Answer 1

You can use .replace('<old_string>', '<new_string>') while iterating through your rows.

def replace_rows(rows)
    for i in range(len(rows)):
        rows[i] = rows[i].replace('e-bike', '1')

    return rows

Or even with list comprehension:

def replace_rows(rows):
    return [i.replace('e-bike', '1') for i in rows]

Answer 2

You may try something like, assuming you have a list of sentences sentences_list :

results = []

for sentence in sentences_list:
    results.append(sentence.replace("e-bike", "1"))

print(results)