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I am new with pandas and I am trying to join two dataframes based on the equality of one specific column. For example suppose that I have the followings:
df1
A B C
1 2 3
2 2 2
df2
A B C
5 6 7
2 8 9
Both dataframes have the same columns and the value of only one column (say A) might be equal. What I want as output is this:
df3
A B C B C
2 8 9 2 2
The values for column 'A' are unique in both dataframes.
Thanks
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We can merge two Pandas DataFrames on certain columns using the merge function by simply specifying the certain columns for merge. Example1: Let's create a Dataframe and then merge them into a single dataframe. Creating a Dataframe: Python3.
Different column names are specified for merges in Pandas using the “left_on” and “right_on” parameters, instead of using only the “on” parameter. Merging dataframes with different names for the joining variable is achieved using the left_on and right_on arguments to the pandas merge function.
The concat() function in pandas is used to append either columns or rows from one DataFrame to another. The concat() function does all the heavy lifting of performing concatenation operations along an axis while performing optional set logic (union or intersection) of the indexes (if any) on the other axes.
To merge two pandas DataFrames on multiple columns use pandas. merge() method. merge() is considered more versatile and flexible and we also have the same method in DataFrame.
pd.concat([df1.set_index('A'),df2.set_index('A')], axis=1, join='inner')
If you wish to maintain column A as a non-index, then:
pd.concat([df1.set_index('A'),df2.set_index('A')], axis=1, join='inner').reset_index()
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