Remove accents from a python dataframe

Question

I have a dataframe that looks like:

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

Does this answer your question? [How to remove accents from values in columns?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37926248/how-to-remove-accents-from-values-in-columns) — Henry Ecker, May 12 '21 at 18:24

Shivam Roy · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-12T17:48:35.153

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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)

edited May 12 '21 at 17:48

answered May 12 '21 at 17:40

Shivam Roy

When I do this I obtain a message that says: 'Series' object hast no attribute 'encode' – alelew May 12 '21 at 17:42
Can you please provide more clarity about the data in that case ? – Shivam Roy May 12 '21 at 17:44
@alelew Please check the edit if it works. – Shivam Roy May 12 '21 at 17:47

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