python - pandas replace (erase) different characters from strings

Question

I have a list of high schools. I would like to erase certain characters, words, and symbols from the strings.

I currently have:

df['schoolname'] = df['schoolname'].str.replace('high', "")

However, I would like to use a list so I can quickly replace high, school, /, etc.

Any suggestions?

df['schoolname'] = df['schoolname'].str.replace(['high', 'school'], "") 

does not work

Answer 1

Use regex (seperate the strings by |):

df['schoolname'] = df['schoolname'].str.replace('high|school', "")