Remove accents from a python dataframe

Question

I have a dataframe that looks like:

words
Atlántica
Común
Guión

and I want to remove all accents from each elemnt.

What I'm doing is:

from unidecode import unidecode
unidecode.unidecode(df['words'])

as a result I'm obtaining an error message that says:

'function' object has no atribute 'unidecode'

Can anyone help me? Regards

Answer 1

You're importing unidecode and then calling it again as an attribute. Try this:

from unidecode import unidecode
unidecode(df['words'])

Based on the error ('Series' object hast no attribute 'encode') you're getting after trying this, my guess would be this should work:

df['words'] = df['words'].apply(unidecode)