Format the color of a cell in a pandas dataframe according to multiple conditions

Question

I am trying to format the color of a cell of an specific column in a data frame, but I can't manage to do it according to multiple conditions.

This is my dataframe (df):

    Name     ID         Cel     Date
0   Diego   b000000005  7878    2565-05-31 20:53:00
1   Luis    b000000015  6464    2017-05-11 20:53:00
2   Vidal   b000000002  1100    2017-05-08 20:53:00
3   John    b000000011  4545    2017-06-06 20:53:00
4   Yusef   b000000013  1717    2017-06-06 20:53:00

I want the values in the "Date" column to change color according to the following conditions:

 if date < datetime.now():
        color = 'green'
    elif date > datetime.now():
        date = 'yellow'
    elif date > (datetime.now() + timedelta(days=60)):
        color = 'red'

This is my current code:

def color(val):
    if val < datetime.now():
        color = 'green'
    elif val > datetime.now():
        color = 'yellow'
    elif val > (datetime.now() + timedelta(days=60)):
        color = 'red'
    return 'background-color: %s' % color

df.style.apply(color, subset = ['Fecha'])

I am getting the following error:

ValueError: ('The truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().', 'occurred at index Fecha')

The output is:

Out[65]: <pandas.formats.style.Styler at 0x1e3ab8dec50>

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Use applymap:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import pandas as pd

name = ['Diego', 'Luis', 'Vidal', 'John', 'Yusef']
id = ['b000000005', 'b000000015', 'b000000002', 'b000000011', 'b000000013']
cel = [7878, 6464, 1100, 4545, 1717]
date = pd.to_datetime(['2017-05-31 20:53:00', '2017-05-11 20:53:00', '2017-05-08 20:53:00', 
                       '2017-06-06 20:53:00', '2017-06-06 20:53:00'])

df = pd.DataFrame({'Name':name,'ID':id,'Cel':cel,'Date':date})

def color(val):
    if val < datetime.now():
        color = 'green'
    elif val > datetime.now():
        color = 'yellow'
    elif val > (datetime.now() + timedelta(days=60)):
        color = 'red'
    return 'background-color: %s' % color

df.style.applymap(color, subset=['Date'])

Screenshot from Jupyter notebook. If you print the output instead, you'll just get a reference to the Styler object:

print(df.style.applymap(color, subset=['Date']))
<pandas.formats.style.Styler object at 0x116db43d0>