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Removing whitespace

With the ratings now stored as integers, you notice another issue in the dataset: some values in the detail column have leading whitespace. This inconsistency could cause problems when grouping products by their detail type - " eau de toilette" and "eau de toilette" would be treated as different categories.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Transformation with Polars

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Exercise instructions

  • Remove leading whitespace from the detail column by calling the .strip_chars_start() method.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Remove leading whitespace from the detail column
reviews.____(
    pl.col("detail").____.____()
)
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