Find Last Word in a String within a List (Pandas, Python 3)

Question

I have a DF named 'Stories" that looks like this:

Story
The Man
The Man Child
The Boy of Egypt
The Legend of Zelda

Is there a way to extract the last word in each of those strings?

Something like:

Stories['Prefix'] = final['Story'].str.extract(r'([^ ]*)') 

finds the prefix but I am not sure how to adapt it accordingly

I was hoping to end up with something like

Story                  Suffix
The Word Of Man         Man
The Man of Legend       Legend
The Boy of Egypt        Egypt
The Legend of Zelda     Zelda

Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use .str twice, as .str[-1] will pick up the last element:

>>> df["Suffix"] = df["Story"].str.split().str[-1]
>>> df
                 Story Suffix
0              The Man    Man
1        The Man Child  Child
2     The Boy of Egypt  Egypt
3  The Legend of Zelda  Zelda