Remove "x" number of characters from a string in a pandas dataframe?
Using zip with string slice
df.a=[x[y:] for x,y in zip(df.a,df.b)]dfOut[584]: a b0 sastring 51 rstring 62 ring 7
You can do it with apply, to apply this row-wise:
df.apply(lambda x: x.a[x.b:],axis=1)0 sastring1 rstring2 ringdtype: object