Pandas .title() when string has an 's

Question

I converted a string in a Pandas dataframe to title case. However, when I do, anything directly after an apostrophe becomes uppercase as well. How do I correct this?

df[cols] = df[cols].apply(lambda x: x.str.title())
df['name'] = df['name'].replace("\'S", "\'s")
df.head()

Answer 1

If you want to avoid 'later fixing', one idea could be to split the string on the space and uppercase first letter of each word:

df[cols] = df[cols].applymap(
    lambda string: ' '.join(map(str.capitalize, string.split()))
)

Following @shriakhilc interesting suggestion, there is also an equivalent built-in way of doing this with the string.capwords method:

from string import capwords

df[cols] = df[cols].applymap(capwords)

Answer 2

You can try enable the regex parameter

df['name'] = df['name'].replace("'S", "'s", regex=True)

Or use pandas.Series.str.replace

df['name'] = df['name'].str.replace("'S", "'s")

# To fix multiple columns
df[cols] = df[cols].apply(lambda col: col.str.replace("'S", "'s"))