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How to drop records with special characters in a dataframe

I am trying to drop records/ Rows in a dataframe with special characters. I have tried many things like:

df1['Day'] = df1['Day'].str.replace(r"[\"\'\|\?\=\.\@\#\*\,]", '')
df.drop(df[df.ID.str.contains(r'[^0-9a-zA-Z]')].index 

But i am getting the following recurssion error.

Also, is there any way to impute the records with special characters with mean/median/mode

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RecursionError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/formatters.py in __call__(self, obj)
    697                 type_pprinters=self.type_printers,
    698                 deferred_pprinters=self.deferred_printers)
--> 699             printer.pretty(obj)
    700             printer.flush()
    701             return stream.getvalue()

18 frames
... last 15 frames repeated, from the frame below ...

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pandas/core/frame.py in __repr__(self)
   1000             line_width=width,
   1001             max_colwidth=max_colwidth,
-> 1002             show_dimensions=show_dimensions,
   1003         )
   1004 

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RecursionError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/IPython/core/formatters.py in __call__(self, obj)
    332                 pass
    333             else:
--> 334                 return printer(obj)
    335             # Finally look for special method names
    336             method = get_real_method(obj, self.print_method)

26 frames
... last 15 frames repeated, from the frame below ...

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pandas/io/formats/format.py in format_col(self, i)
    823             space=self.col_space.get(frame.columns[i]),
    824             decimal=self.decimal,
--> 825             leading_space=self.index,
    826         )
    827 

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object


source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71188780/how-to-drop-records-with-special-characters-in-a-dataframe

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