Given a pandas DataFrame (df), where one column (unique_val_col) should have a unique value, what is the best the best way to extract this value (not as a list)?
So far I've used the following code:
output = list(set(df[unique_val_col)))
if len(output)==1: output = output[0]
Or if there is a chance for nans then change the first line to be:
output = [val for val in list(set(df[unique_val_col))) if val == val]
The question is whether there is a more direct way, that would also reflect the fact that the column actually has only one value without needing the 'if' statement.
I think you are trying to find a value that occurs only once, if that's so you could achieve it like this
df['unique_value_counts'].value_counts().sort_values(ascending=False).keys()[0]
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I have a data frame with rows that are mostly translations of other rows e.g. an English row and an Arabic row. They share an identifier (location_shelfLocator) and I'm trying to merge the rows together based on the identifier match. In some columns the Arabic doesn't contain a translation, but the same English value (e.g. for the language column both records might have ['ger'] which becomes ['ger', 'ger']) so I would like to get rid of these duplicate values. This is my code:
df_merged = df_filled.groupby("location_shelfLocator").agg(
lambda x: np.unique(x.tolist())
)
It works when the values being aggregated are the same type (e.g. when they are both strings or when they are both arrays). When one is a string and the other is an array, it doesn't work. I get this warning:
FutureWarning: ['subject_name_namePart'] did not aggregate successfully. If any error is raised this will raise in a future version of pandas. Drop these columns/ops to avoid this warning.
df_merged = df_filled.groupby("location_shelfLocator").agg(lambda x: np.unique(x.tolist()))
and the offending column is removed from the final data frame. Any idea how I can combine these values and remove duplicates when they are both lists, both strings, or one of each?
Here is some sample data:
location_shelfLocator,language_languageTerm,subject_topic,accessCondition,subject_name_namePart
81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000093,ara,"['فلك، العرب', 'فلك، اليونان', 'فلك، العصور الوسطى', 'الكواكب']",المُلكية العامة,كلاوديوس بطلميوس (بطليمو)
81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000093,ara,"['Astronomy, Arab', 'Astronomy, Greek', 'Astronomy, Medieval', 'Constellations']",Public Domain,"['Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)', ""'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn 'Umar Ṣūfī""]"
And expected output:
location_shelfLocator,language_languageTerm,subject_topic,accessCondition,subject_name_namePart
"[‘81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000093’] ",[‘ara’],"['فلك، العرب', 'فلك، اليونان', 'فلك، العصور الوسطى', ‘الكواكب’, 'Astronomy, Arab', 'Astronomy, Greek', 'Astronomy, Medieval', 'Constellations']","[‘المُلكية العامة’, ‘Public Domain’]","[‘كلاوديوس بطلميوس (بطليمو)’,’Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)', ""'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn 'Umar Ṣūfī""]"
If you cannot have a control over the input value, you need to fix it somehow.
Something like this. Here, I am converting string value in subject_name_namePart to array of string.
from ast import literal_eval
mask = df.subject_name_namePart.str[0] != '['
df.loc[mask, 'subject_name_namePart'] = "['" + df.loc[mask, 'subject_name_namePart'] + "']"
df['subject_name_namePart'] = df.subject_name_namePart.transform(literal_eval)
Then, you can do (explode) + aggregation.
df = df.explode('subject_name_namePart')
df = df.groupby('location_shelfLocator').agg(lambda x: x.unique().tolist())
I have a dataframe that has some cells with the value of "?". now this value causes an error ("Could not convert string to float: "?") whenever i try to use the multi information metric.
I already found a solution by simply using:
df.replace("?",0,inplace=True)
And it worked. BUT i'm wondering if i wanted to remove the whole row if one of its cells has the value of "?", how can i do that?
Notice that i don't have the column names that contains this value. it's spread in different column and that's why i can't use df.drop.
You can check for each cell if they are equal to "?" and then get a boolean series over rows that contain that character in any one of their cells. Then get the indices of rows that gave True and drop them:
has_ques_mark = df.eq("?").any(axis=1) # a boolean series
inds = has_ques_mark[has_ques_mark].index # row indices where above is True
new_df = df.drop(inds)
You can do it the following way:
df.drop(df.loc[df['column_name'] == "?"].index, inplace=True)
or in a slightly simpler syntax but maybe a bit less performant:
df = df.loc[df['column_name'] != "?"]
I have a very large data frame that I want to split ALL of the columns except first two based on a comma delimiter. So I need to logically reference column names in a loop or some other way to split all the columns in one swoop.
In my testing of the split method:
I have been able to explicitly refer to ( i.e. HARD CODE) a single column name (rs145629793) as one of the required parameters and the result was 2 new columns as I wanted.
See python code below
HARDCODED COLUMN NAME --
df[['rs1','rs2']] = df.rs145629793.str.split(",", expand = True)
The problem:
It is not feasible to refer to the actual column names and repeat code.
I then replaced the actual column name rs145629793 with columns[2] in the split method parameter list.
It results in an ERROR
'str has ni str attribute'
You can index columns by position rather than name using iloc. For example, to get the third column:
df.iloc[:, 2]
Thus you can easily loop over the columns you need.
I know what you are asking, but it's still helpful to provide some input data and expected output data. I have included random input data in my code below, so you can just copy and paste this to run, and try to apply it to your dataframe:
import pandas as pd
your_dataframe=pd.DataFrame({'a':['1,2,3', '9,8,7'],
'b':['4,5,6', '6,5,4'],
'c':['7,8,9', '3,2,1']})
import copy
def split_cols(df):
dict_of_df = {}
cols=df.columns.to_list()
for col in cols:
key_name = 'df'+str(col)
dict_of_df[key_name] = copy.deepcopy(df)
var=df[col].str.split(',', expand=True).add_prefix(col)
df=pd.merge(df, var, how='left', left_index=True, right_index=True).drop(col, axis=1)
return df
split_cols(your_dataframe)
Essentially, in this solution you create a list of the columns that you want to loop through. Then you loop through that list and create new dataframes for each column where you run the split() function. Then you merge everything back together on the index. I also:
included a prefix of the column name, so the column names did not have duplicate names and could be more easily identifiable
dropped the old column that we did the split on.
Just import copy and use the split_cols() function that I have created and pass the name of your dataframe.
I have a task to compare two dataframe with same columns name but different size, we can call it previous and current. I am trying to get the difference between (previous and current) in the Quantity and Booked Columns and highlight it as yellow. The common key between the two dataframe would be the 'SN' columns
I have coded out the following
for idx, rows in df_n.iterrows():
if rows["Quantity"] == rows['Available'] + rows['Booked']:
continue
else:
rows["Quantity"] = rows["Quantity"] - rows['Available'] - rows['Booked']
df_n.loc[idx, 'Quantity'].style.applymap('background-color: yellow')
# pdb.set_trace()
if (df_o['Booked'][df_o['SN'] == rows["SN"]] != rows['Booked']).bool():
df_n.loc[idx, 'Booked'].style.apply('background-color: yellow')
I realise I have a few problems here and need some help
df_n.loc[idx, 'Quantity'] returns value instead of a dataframe type. How can I get a dataframe from one cell. Do I have to pd.DataFrame(data=df_n.loc[idx, 'Quantity'], index=idx, columns ='Quantity'). Will this create a copy or will update the reference?
How do I compare the SN of both dataframe, looking for a better way to compare. One thing I could think of is to use set index for both dataframe and when finished using them, reset them back?
My dataframe:
Previous dataframe
Current Dataframe
df_n.loc[idx, 'Quantity'] returns value instead of a dataframe type.
How can I get a dataframe from one cell. Do I have to
pd.DataFrame(data=df_n.loc[idx, 'Quantity'], index=idx, columns
='Quantity'). Will this create a copy or will update the reference?
To create a DataFrame from one cell you can try: df_n.loc[idx, ['Quantity']].to_frame().T
How do I compare the SN of both dataframe, looking for a better way to
compare. One thing I could think of is to use set index for both
dataframe and when finished using them, reset them back?
You can use df_n.merge(df_o, on='S/N') to merge dataframes and 'compare' columns.
n1 = DataFrame({'zhanghui':[1,2,3,4] , 'wudi':[17,'gx',356,23] ,'sas'[234,51,354,123] })
n2 = DataFrame({'zhanghui_x':[1,2,3,5] , 'wudi':[17,23,'sd',23] ,'wudi_x':[17,23,'x356',23] ,'wudi_y':[17,23,'y356',23] ,'ddd':[234,51,354,123] })
code above defined two DataFrame objects. I wanna use 'zhanghui' field from n1 and 'zhanghui_x' field from n2 as "on" field merge n1 and n2,so my code like this:
n1.merge(n2,how = 'inner',left_on = 'zhanghui',right_on='zhanghui_x')
and then result columns given like this :
sas wudi_x zhanghui ddd wudi_y wudi_x wudi_y zhanghui_x
Some duplicate columns appeared,such as 'wudi_x' ,'wudi_y'.
So it's a pandas inner problems or I had a wrong usage about pd.merge ?
From pandas documentation, the merge() function has following properties;
pd.merge(left, right, how='inner', on=None, left_on=None, right_on=None,
left_index=False, right_index=False, sort=True,
suffixes=('_x', '_y'), copy=True, indicator=False,
validate=None)
where suffixes denote default suffix string to be attached to 'over-lapping' columns with defaults '_x' and '_y'.
I'm not sure if I understood your follow-up question correctly, but;
#case1
if the first dataFrame has column 'column_name_x' and the second dataFrame has column 'column_name' then there are no over-lapping columns and therefore no suffixes are attached.
#case2
if the first dataFrame has columns 'column_name', 'column_name_x' and the second dataFrame also has column 'column_name', the default suffixes attach to over-lapping columns and therefore the first frame's 'columnn_name' becomes 'column_name_x' and result in a duplicate of already existing column.
You can however, pass a None value to one(not all) of the suffixes to ensure that column names of certain dataFrame remain as-is.
Your approach is right, pandas automatically gives postscripts after merging the columns that are "duplicated" with the original headers given a postscript _x, _y, etc.
you can first select what columns to merge and proceed:
cols_to_use = n2.columns - n1.columns
n1.merge(n2[cols_to_use],how = 'inner',left_on = 'zhanghui',right_on='zhanghui_x')
result columns:
sas wudi zhanghui ddd wudi_x wudi_y zhanghui_x
When I tried to run cols_to_use = n2.columns - n1.columns,it gave me a TypeError like this:
cannot perform __sub__ with this index type: <class pandas.core.indexes.base.Index'>
then I tried to use code below:
cols_to_use = [i for i in list(n2.columns) if i not in list(n1.columns) ]
It worked fine,result columns given like this:
sas wudi zhanghui ddd wudi_x wudi_y zhanghui_x
So,#S Ringne's method really resolved my problems.
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Pandas just simply add suffix such as '_x' to resolve the duplicate-column-name problem when it comes to merging two Frame objects.
But what will it happen if the name form of 'a-column-name'+'_x' appears in either Frame object? I used to think that it will check if the name form of 'a-column-name'+'_x' appears, But actually pandas doesn't have this check?