pandas.Series.str.len#

Series.str.len()[source] #

Compute the length of each element in the Series/Index.

The element may be a sequence (such as a string, tuple or list) or a collection (such as a dictionary).

Returns:

Series or Index of int: A Series or Index of integer values indicating the length of each element in the Series or Index.

See also

str.len: Python built-in function returning the length of an object.
Series.size: Returns the length of the Series.

Examples

Returns the length (number of characters) in a string. Returns the number of entries for dictionaries, lists or tuples.

>>> s = pd.Series(['dog',
...  '',
...  5,
...  {'foo' : 'bar'},
...  [2, 3, 5, 7],
...  ('one', 'two', 'three')])
>>> s
0 dog
1
2 5
3 {'foo': 'bar'}
4 [2, 3, 5, 7]
5 (one, two, three)
dtype: object
>>> s.str.len()
0 3.0
1 0.0
2 NaN
3 1.0
4 4.0
5 3.0
dtype: float64