Is there a way to determine if there is an uneven number of quotation marks in a string?

Question

From strings in a dataframe, is it possible to let the user know if there is an uneven number of double quotation marks?

`if s.count('"') % 2 == 1: print("Oh no!")`? For a dataframe, do it a bunch of times? — ShadowRanger, Sep 22 '20 at 11:10
I would like to do this check for all columns in a dataframe — Jacob Liljestrand, Sep 22 '20 at 11:38
Does this answer your question? [How to get value counts for multiple columns at once in Pandas DataFrame?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32589829/how-to-get-value-counts-for-multiple-columns-at-once-in-pandas-dataframe) — Tomerikoo, Sep 22 '20 at 12:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '20 at 11:11

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x = '"""'
print(x.count('"')%2==1)

output:

True

answered Sep 22 '20 at 11:11

Yossi Levi

I would like to do this check for all columns in a dataframe – Jacob Liljestrand Sep 22 '20 at 11:38
post your code and I could try to help. you can sum-up all the `count` over the columns and then check if it's odd for example – Yossi Levi Sep 22 '20 at 11:45
Okey, how about just counting all " in a dataframe? How do I do that – Jacob Liljestrand Sep 22 '20 at 12:10
use this: `s = pd.Series(['$', 'B', 'Aab$', '$$ca', 'C$B$', 'cat']) s.str.count('"')`, and sum over the result – Yossi Levi Sep 22 '20 at 12:19

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