Prevent column name from disappearing after using replace on dataframe - python-3.x

Question

So I have a real dataframe that somewhat follows the next structure:
d = {'col1':['1_ABC','2_DEF','3 GHI']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)
Basically, some entries have the " _ ", others have " ".
My goal is to split that first number into a new column and keep the rest. For this, I thought I'd first replace the '_' by ' ' to normalize everything, and then simply split by ' ' to get the new column.
#Replace the '_' for ' '
new_df['Name'] = df['Name'].str.replace('_',' ')
My problem is that now my new_df now lost its column name:
0 1 ABC
1 2 DEF
Any way to prevent this from happening?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Function str.replace return Series, so there is no column name, only Series name.
s = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ')
print (s)
0 1 ABC
1 2 DEF
2 3 GHI
Name: col1, dtype: object
print (type(s))
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
print (s.name)
col1
If need new column assign to same DataFrame - df['Name']:
df['Name'] = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ')
print (df)
col1 Name
0 1_ABC 1 ABC
1 2_DEF 2 DEF
2 3 GHI 3 GHI
Or overwrite values of original column:
df['col1'] = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ')
print (df)
col1
0 1 ABC
1 2 DEF
2 3 GHI
If need new one column DataFrame use Series.to_frame for convert Series to df:
df2 = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ').to_frame()
print (df2)
col1
0 1 ABC
1 2 DEF
2 3 GHI
Also is possible define new column name:
df1 = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ').to_frame('New')
print (df1)
New
0 1 ABC
1 2 DEF
2 3 GHI
Like #anky_91 commented, if need new 2 columns add str.split:
df1 = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ').str.split(expand=True)
df1.columns = ['A','B']
print (df1)
A B
0 1 ABC
1 2 DEF
2 3 GHI
If need add columns to existing DataFrame:
df[['A','B']] = df['col1'].str.replace('_',' ').str.split(expand=True)
print (df)
col1 A B
0 1_ABC 1 ABC
1 2_DEF 2 DEF
2 3 GHI 3 GHI