Fuse str.contains()

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Instance of the original version

df_john = df['Name'].str.contains("John", regex=False)
df_helen = df['Name'].str.contains("Helen", regex=False)

Instance of the faster version

ls_john = []
ls_helen = []
# Do a single pass over the strings
for s in df['Name']:
  ls_john.append("John" in s)
  ls_helen.append("Helen" in s)

ls_john = pd.Series(ls_john)
ls_helen = pd.Series(ls_helen)