pass a list of text in pandas str.replace function

Question

pandas function str.replace has 2 parameters one that is to be searched and other is the value which needs to be replaced with. Lets say i have 2 lists as keyword and lookupId as follows.

lookupid = ['##10##','##13##','##12##','##13##']
keyword = ['IT Manager', 'Sales Manager', 'IT Analyst', 'Store Manager']

Instead of iterating through the lists using zip() or any other means, i want to directly insert both the lists in the str.replace code. is there any way i can avoid the loop and still do it in a faster way? My data consists of millions of records in the dataframe where i am doiung find and replace and also in the lookupin and keyword list there are close to 200000 elements. Hence performance matters. How can i execute this faster?

df_find.currentTitle.str.replace(r'keyword'\b',r'lookupId',case=False)

I am getting below error.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-cb36f6429008> in <module>()
----> 1 df_find.currentTitle=df_find.currentTitle.str.replace(r'\b'+df_replace.keyword+r'\b',r' '+df_replace.lookupId+ ' ',case=False)

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\strings.pyc in replace(self, pat, repl, n, case, flags)
   1504     def replace(self, pat, repl, n=-1, case=True, flags=0):
   1505         result = str_replace(self._data, pat, repl, n=n, case=case,
-> 1506                              flags=flags)
   1507         return self._wrap_result(result)
   1508 

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\strings.pyc in str_replace(arr, pat, repl, n, case, flags)
    320     # Check whether repl is valid (GH 13438)
    321     if not is_string_like(repl):
--> 322         raise TypeError("repl must be a string")
    323     use_re = not case or len(pat) > 1 or flags
    324 

TypeError: repl must be a string

My input data is like

current_title
I have been working here as a store manager since after I passed from college
I am sales manager and primarily work in the ASEAN region. My primary rolw is to bring new customers.
I initially joined as a IT analyst and because of my sheer drive and dedication, I was promoted to IT manager position within 3 years

Output

current_title
I have been working here as a ##13## since after I passed from college
I am ##13## and primarily work in the ASEAN region. My primary rolw is to bring new customers.
I initially joined as a ##12## and because of my sheer drive and dedication, I was promoted to ##10## position within 3 years

Edit: as per jezrel's answer i went by the suggestion and i am getting new error.

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-699e487f230e> in <module>()
----> 1 df_find.currentTitle.replace(keyword, df_replace['lookupId'], regex=True)

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\generic.pyc in replace(self, to_replace, value, inplace, limit, regex, method, axis)
   3506                                                        dest_list=value,
   3507                                                        inplace=inplace,
-> 3508                                                        regex=regex)
   3509 
   3510                 else:  # [NA, ''] -> 0

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\internals.pyc in replace_list(self, src_list, dest_list, inplace, regex, mgr)
   3211                                      operator.eq)
   3212 
-> 3213         masks = [comp(s) for i, s in enumerate(src_list)]
   3214 
   3215         result_blocks = []

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\internals.pyc in comp(s)
   3209                 return isnull(values)
   3210             return _possibly_compare(values, getattr(s, 'asm8', s),
-> 3211                                      operator.eq)
   3212 
   3213         masks = [comp(s) for i, s in enumerate(src_list)]

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\internals.pyc in _possibly_compare(a, b, op)
   4613             type_names[1] = 'ndarray(dtype=%s)' % b.dtype
   4614 
-> 4615         raise TypeError("Cannot compare types %r and %r" % tuple(type_names))
   4616     return result
   4617 

TypeError: Cannot compare types 'ndarray(dtype=object)' and 'str'

Answer 1

It seems you need list comprehension with Series.replace (not Series.str.replace):

keyword = [ r'\b(?i)' + x +r'\b' for x in keyword]
df_find.currentTitle = df_find.currentTitle.replace(keyword,lookupid,regex=True)

#temporary display long strings
with pd.option_context('display.max_colwidth', 130):
    print (df_find)

---

                                                                                                                    currentTitle
0                                                         I have been working here as a ##13## since after I passed from college
1                                 I am ##13## and primarily work in the ASEAN region. My primary rolw is to bring new customers.
2  I initially joined as a ##12## and because of my sheer drive and dedication, I was promoted to ##10## position within 3 years

Answer 2

try this:

In [177]: df.current_title.replace([r'\b(?i){}\b'.format(k) for k in keyword], lookupid, regex=True)
Out[177]:
0                                                     I have been working here as a ##13## since after I passed from college
1                             I am ##13## and primarily work in the ASEAN region. My primary rolw is to bring new customers.
2    I initially joined as a ##12## and because of my sheer drive and dedication, I was promoted to ##10## position withi...
Name: current_title, dtype: object