Is there a simple way to change a column of yes/no to 1/0 in a Pandas dataframe?

Question

I read a csv file into a pandas dataframe, and would like to convert the columns with binary answers from strings of yes/no to integers of 1/0. Below, I show one of such columns ("sampleDF" is the pandas dataframe).

In [13]: sampleDF.housing[0:10]
Out[13]:
0     no
1     no
2    yes
3     no
4     no
5     no
6     no
7     no
8    yes
9    yes
Name: housing, dtype: object

Help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

method 1

sample.housing.eq('yes').mul(1)

method 2

pd.Series(np.where(sample.housing.values == 'yes', 1, 0),
          sample.index)

method 3

sample.housing.map(dict(yes=1, no=0))

method 4

pd.Series(map(lambda x: dict(yes=1, no=0)[x],
              sample.housing.values.tolist()), sample.index)

method 5

pd.Series(np.searchsorted(['no', 'yes'], sample.housing.values), sample.index)

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All yield

0    0
1    0
2    1
3    0
4    0
5    0
6    0
7    0
8    1
9    1

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timing
given sample

timing
long sample
sample = pd.DataFrame(dict(housing=np.random.choice(('yes', 'no'), size=100000)))