import pymysql,pandas,sys,re def cleanTxt(txt): res = re.sub("\t|\n", " ", txt) res = re.sub("\:{2,3}|\:+$", "", res) res = re.sub("\:\,", ",", res) return res df = pandas.read_excel("/Users/maddiekorea/PycharmProjects/prdKwdBuilder/po_keywords.xlsx") df = df.fillna("") df['options'] = df['options'].apply(cleanTxt) df['po_context'] = df['po_context'].apply(cleanTxt) df['mrkt_titl_nm'] = df['mrkt_titl_nm'].apply(cleanTxt) df.to_excel("/Users/maddiekorea/PycharmProjects/prdKwdBuilder/po_keywords_.xlsx")