Ignore_letters option
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hjohns12 commented
For the purpose of matching strings with helpful numbers and unhelpful words (such as precinct names with codes and messy names), adding an "ignore_letters" option would be nice. This would only match numbers from two columns of interest.
I implemented something like this in my code with:
def ignore_alpha(row):
regex = re.compile('[\D_]+')
return [regex.sub('', value) for value in row]
maxharlow commented
This can be achieved with the Regex ignore function