str.contains pandas returns 'str' object has no attribute 'contains'

I am analyzing tweets.

I have 10k tweets and am interested in a list of words occurring:

lst1=['spot','mistake'] lst1_tweets=tweets[tweets['tweet_text'].str.contains('|'.join(lst1))].reset_index() 

I want to double check and have:

f=lst1_tweets['tweet_text'][0] f='Spot the spelling mistake Welsh and Walsh. You are showing picture of presenter Bradley Walsh who is alive and kick' type(f) <class 'str'> 

I used

f.str.contains('|'.join(lst1)) 

returns:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'str' 

also

f.contains('|'.join(lst1)) 

returns:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'contains' 

Any suggestions how I can search for a list of words in a string

3 Answers

I think you are looking for in:

if 'goat' in 'goat cheese': print('beeeeeeh!') 

You might be confusing .str.contains() from pandas, which exists and is applied to series. In this case you can use in or not in operators. Here's a full guide on how to address the issue Does Python have a string 'contains' substring method?

From pandas docs:

Series.str.contains(self, pat, case=True, flags=0, na=nan, regex=True). Test if pattern or regex is contained within a string of a Series or Index.

Not too sure if you're just checking for certain strings in a string, but i'm pretty sure .contains isn't a python thing, try this:

for "string" in f: # do whatever