Pandas how to split characters

absrtact: This article is mainly in the pandas how to split the string. Let's consider the following scenario.
This is our dataset (data), and you can see that a column (name) in the dataset is a category for an industry. Symbols ' | ' Between industries Segmentation. We're going to use each ' | ' Extract the contents of the partition. Pandas has a step-by-step approach to the place, very convenient.

Import Pandas as PD

data[' name '].str.split (' | ', Expand=true)

The key is the parameter expand, which, when true, treats the cut as a column. If you do not need pandas for your column, Expand=false will be OK. With the above step, we can get the following results.

This time has been cut into 3 columns.
Then, if we just want the first column, we just need to do it:

data[' name '].str.split (' | ', expand=true) [0]