In Python - How to count the occurrences of the word “price” in each row of the column “content”?

Question

data frame

I hope the data is visible. It is a small textual data frame with row and columns. I need to count the occurrences of a specific word like "price" in each row of a column named "content".

Answer 1

First, let me help you display the dataframe:

date	title	content
10/10/2010	one thing	this price is a low price
10/9/2010	two things	price is high
10/8/2010	three things	high price is higher price

You can write a python function to get the count of a specific word in the sentence of the content column.

def word_count(sentence, query_word):
    word_list = sentence.split()
    return word_list.count(query_word) 

if __name__=="__main__":
    sentence ='high price is higher price'         
    print(word_count(sentence, 'price'))

Or if you want count all words, try Counter

from typing import Counter

sentence ='high price is higher price'
c = Counter(sentence.split())
print(c['price'])
print(c.most_common())