Normalising units/Replace substrings based on lists using Python - python-3.x

Question

I am trying to normalize weight units in a string.
Eg:
1.SUCO MARACUJA COM GENGIBRE PCS 300 Millilitre - SUCO MARACUJA COM GENGIBRE PCS 300 ML
2. OVOS CAIPIRAS ANA MARIA BRAGA 10UN - OVOS CAIPIRAS ANA MARIA BRAGA 10U
3. SUCO MARACUJA MAMAO PCS 300 Gram - SUCO MARACUJA MAMAO PCS 300 G
4. SUCO ABACAXI COM MACA PCS 300Milli litre - SUCO ABACAXI COM MACA PCS 300ML
The keyword table is :
unit = ['Kilo','Kilogram','Gram','Milligram','Millilitre','Milli
litre','Dozen','Litre','Un','Und','Unid','Unidad','Unidade','Unidades']
norm_unit = ['KG','KG','G','MG','ML','ML','DZ','L','U','U','U','U','U','U']
I tried to take up these lists as a table but am having difficulty in comparing two dataframes or tables in python.
I tried the below code.
unit = ['Kilo','Kilogram','Gram','Milligram','Millilitre','Milli
litre','Dozen','Litre','Un','Und','Unid','Unidad','Unidade','Unidades']
norm_unit = ['KG','KG','G','MG','ML','ML','DZ','L','U','U','U','U','U','U']
z='SUCO MARACUJA COM GENGIBRE PCS 300 Millilitre'
#for row in mongo_docs:
#z = row['clean_hntproductname']
for x in unit:
for y in norm_unit:
if (re.search(r'\s'+x+r'$',z,re.I)):
# clean_hntproductname = t.lower().replace(x.lower(),y.lower())
# myquery3 = { "_id" : row['_id']}
# newvalues3 = { "$set": {"clean_hntproductname" : 'clean_hntproductname'} }
# ds_hnt_prod_data.update_one(myquery3, newvalues3)
I'm using Python(Jupyter) with MongoDb(Compass). Fetching data from Mongo and writing back to it.

Answer 1

From my understanding you want to:
Update all the rows in a table which contain the words in the unit array, to the ones in norm_unit.
(Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with MongoDB or Python.)
What you want is to create a mapping (using a hash) of the words you want to change.
Here's a trivial solution (i.e. not best solution but would probably point you in the right direction.)
unit_conversions = {
'Kilo': 'KG'
'Kilogram': 'KG',
'Gram': 'G'
}
# pseudo-code
for each row that you want to update
item_description = get the value of the string in the column
for each key in unit_conversion (e.g. 'Kilo')
see if the item_description contains the key
if it does, replace it with unit_convertion[key] (e.g. 'KG')
update the row