What am I doing wrong with this syntax of multiple if – else in apply pandas?

I am trying to execute this code:

data['lga_code'] = data.loc[:,'lga'].apply(lambda x: 'Rural' if x == endswith('Rural')
                                          ('Urban' if x == endswith('Urban')
                                           else 'other'))

But I get this error: SyntaxError: invalid syntax.

What is wrong?

The data is a dataframe that it has 125 categories. I want to group them all into three, and that’s what I tried.

How can I solve that?

Thank you.

>Solution :

You forgot else. Also str.endswith() return True or False. You need to write x.endswith.

data.loc[:,'lga'].apply(lambda x: 'Rural' if x.endswith('Rural')
                        else ('Urban' if x.endswith('Urban')
                              else 'other'))

### You can write without  "loc" ###
data['lga'].apply(lambda x: 'Rural' if x.endswith('Rural')
                        else ('Urban' if x.endswith('Urban')
                              else 'other'))