How to check if row exists inside row in column

Question

What I want to do, I realized, would look like this:

(t in df[self.target]).any()

But I get:

AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'any'

Answer 1

You can use the Pandas methods str( docs ).

df[self.target].str.contains(t).any()

Answer 2

I assume this is a pandas DataFrame. try it

(df[self.target] == t).any()

EDIT:

any((t in k for k in df[self.target]))