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replace values to a dataframe column from another dataframe

I am trying to replace values from a dataframe column with values from another based on a third one and keep the rest of the values from the first df.
# df1
country name value
romania john 100
russia emma 200
sua mark 300
china jack 400
# df2
name value
emma 2
mark 3
Desired result:
# df3
country name value
romania john 100
russia emma 2
sua mark 3
china jack 400
Thank you

One approach could be as follows:
Use Series.map on column name and turn df2 into a Series for mapping by setting its index to name (df.set_index).
Next, chain Series.fillna to replace NaN values with original values from df.value (i.e. whenever mapping did not result in a match) and assign to df['value'].
df['value'] = df['name'].map(df2.set_index('name')['value']).fillna(df['value'])
print(df)
country name value
0 romania john 100.0
1 russia emma 2.0
2 sua mark 3.0
3 china jack 400.0
N.B. The result will now contain floats. If you prefer integers, chain .astype(int) as well.

Another option could be using pandas.DataFrame.Update:
df1.set_index('name', inplace=True)
df1.update(df2.set_index('name'))
df1.reset_index(inplace=True)
name country value
0 john romania 100.0
1 emma russia 2.0
2 mark sua 3.0
3 jack china 400.0

Another option:
df3 = df1.merge(df2, on = 'name', how = 'left')
df3['value'] = df3.value_y.fillna(df3.value_x)
df3.drop(['value_x', 'value_y'], axis = 1, inplace = True)
# country name value
# 0 romania john 100.0
# 1 russia emma 2.0
# 2 sua mark 3.0
# 3 china jack 400.0
Reproducible data:
df1=pd.DataFrame({'country':['romania','russia','sua','china'],'name':['john','emma','mark','jack'],'value':[100,200,300,400]})
df2=pd.DataFrame({'name':['emma','mark'],'value':[2,3]})

In-place update in pandas: update the value of the cell based on a condition

DOB Name
0 1956-10-30 Anna
1 1993-03-21 Jerry
2 2001-09-09 Peter
3 1993-01-15 Anna
4 1999-05-02 James
5 1962-12-17 Jerry
6 1972-05-04 Kate
In the dataframe similar to the one above where I have duplicate names. So I am want to add a suffix '_0' to the name if DOB is before 1990 and a duplicate name.
I am expecting a result like this
DOB Name
0 1956-10-30 Anna_0
1 1993-03-21 Jerry
2 2001-09-09 Peter
3 1993-01-15 Anna
4 1999-05-02 James
5 1962-12-17 Jerry_0
6 1972-05-04 Kate
I am using the following
df['Name'] = df[(df['DOB'] < '01-01-1990') & (df['Name'].isin(['Anna','Jerry']))].Name.apply(lambda x: x+'_0')
But I am getting this result
DOB Name
0 1956-10-30 Anna_0
1 1993-03-21 NaN
2 2001-09-09 NaN
3 1993-01-15 NaN
4 1999-05-02 NaN
5 1962-12-17 Jerry_0
6 1972-05-04 NaN
How can I add a suffix to the Name which is a duplicate and have to be born before 1990.

Problem in your df['Name'] = df[(df['DOB'] < '01-01-1990') & (df['Name'].isin(['Anna','Jerry']))].Name.apply(lambda x: x+'_0') is that df[(df['DOB'] < '01-01-1990') & (df['Name'].isin(['Anna','Jerry']))] is a filtered dataframe whose rows are less than the original. When you assign it back, the not filtered rows doesn't have corresponding value in the filtered dataframe, so it becomes NaN.
You can try mask instead
m = (df['DOB'] < '1990-01-01') & df['Name'].duplicated(keep=False)
df['Name'] = df['Name'].mask(m, df['Name']+'_0')

You can use masks and boolean indexing:
# is the year before 1990?
m1 = pd.to_datetime(df['DOB']).dt.year.lt(1990)
# is the name duplicated?
m2 = df['Name'].duplicated(keep=False)
# if both conditions are True, add '_0' to the name
df.loc[m1&m2, 'Name'] += '_0'
output:
DOB Name
0 1956-10-30 Anna_0
1 1993-03-21 Jerry
2 2001-09-09 Peter
3 1993-01-15 Anna
4 1999-05-02 James
5 1962-12-17 Jerry_0
6 1972-05-04 Kate

I am trying to groupby values in a specific column that holds multiple values?

I have this huge netflix dataset which I am trying to see which actors appeared in the most movies/tv shows specifically in America. First, I created a list of unique actors from the dataset. Then created a nested for loop to loop through each name in list3(containing unique actors which checked each row in df3(filtered dataset with 2000+rows) if the column cast contained the current actors name from list3. I believe using iterrows takes too long
myDict1 = {}
for name in list3:
if name not in myDict1:
myDict1[name] = 0
for index, row in df3.iterrows():
if name in row["cast"]:
myDict1[name] += 1
myDict1
Title
cast
Movie1
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tarantino
Movie2
Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise
Movie3
Tom Cruise, Zendaya, Seth Rogen
I want my output to be like this:
Name
Count
Robert De Niro
2
Tom Cruise
2

Use
out = df['cast'].str.split(', ').explode().value_counts()
out = pd.DataFrame({'Name': out.index, 'Count': out.values})
>>> out
Name Count
0 Tom Cruise 2
1 Robert De Niro 2
2 Zendaya 1
3 Seth Rogen 1
4 Tarantino 1
5 Al Pacino 1
6 Tom Hanks 1

l=['Robert De Niro','Tom Cruise']#list
df=df.assign(cast=df['cast'].str.split(',')).apply(pd.Series.explode)#convert cast into list and explode
df[df['cast'].str.contains("|".join(l))].groupby('cast').size().reset_index().rename(columns={'cast':'Name',0:'Count'})#groupby cast, find size and rename columns
Name Count
0 Robert De Niro 2
1 Tom Cruise 2

You could use collections.Counter to get the counts of the actors, after splitting the strings:
from collections import Counter
pd.DataFrame(Counter(df.cast.str.split(", ").sum()).items(),
columns = ['Name', 'Count'])
Name Count
0 Robert De Niro 2
1 Al Pacino 1
2 Tarantino 1
3 Tom Hanks 1
4 Tom Cruise 2
5 Zendaya 1
6 Seth Rogen 1
If you are keen about speed, and you have lots of data, you could dump the entire processing within plain python and rebuild the dataframe:
from itertools import chain
pd.DataFrame(Counter(chain.from_iterable(ent.split(", ")
for ent in df.cast)).items(),
columns = ['Name', 'Count'])

Fill dataframe nan values from a join

I am trying to map owners to an IP address through the use of two tables, df1 & df2. df1 contains the IP list to be mapped and df2 contains an IP, an alias, and the owner. After running a join on the IP column, it gives me a half joined dataframe. Most of the remaining data can be joined by replacing the NaN values with a join on the Alias column, but I can’t figure out how to do it.
My initial thoughts were to try nesting pd.merge inside fillna(), but it won't accept a dataframe. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'IP' : ['192.18.0.100', '192.18.0.101', '192.18.0.102', '192.18.0.103', '192.18.0.104']})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'IP' : ['192.18.0.100', '192.18.0.101', '192.18.1.206', '192.18.1.218', '192.18.1.118'],
'Alias' : ['192.18.1.214', '192.18.1.243', '192.18.0.102', '192.18.0.103', '192.18.1.180'],
'Owner' : ['Smith, Jim', 'Bates, Andrew', 'Kline, Jenny', 'Hale, Fred', 'Harris, Robert']})
new_df = pd.DataFrame(pd.merge(df1, df2[['IP', 'Owner']], on='IP', how= 'left'))
Expected output is:
IP Owner
192.18.0.100 Smith, Jim
192.18.0.101 Bates, Andrew
192.18.0.102 Kline, Jenny
192.18.0.103 Hale, Fred
192.18.0.104 nan

No need to merge, Just pull data where condition satisfies. This is way faster than merge and less complicated.
condition = (df1['IP'] == df2['IP']) | (df1['IP'] == df2['Alias'])
df1['Owner'] = np.where(condition, df2['Owner'], np.nan)
print(df1)
IP Owner
0 192.18.0.100 Smith, Jim
1 192.18.0.101 Bates, Andrew
2 192.18.0.102 Kline, Jenny
3 192.18.0.103 Hale, Fred
4 192.18.0.104 NaN

Try this one:
new_df = pd.DataFrame(pd.merge(df1, pd.concat([df2[['IP', 'Owner']], df2[['Alias', 'Owner']].rename(columns={"Alias": "IP"})]).drop_duplicates(), on='IP', how= 'left'))
The result:
>>> new_df
IP Owner
0 192.18.0.100 Smith, Jim
1 192.18.0.101 Bates, Andrew
2 192.18.0.102 Kline, Jenny
3 192.18.0.103 Hale, Fred
4 192.18.0.104 NaN

Let's melt then use map:
df1['IP'].map(df2.melt('Owner').set_index('value')['Owner'])
Output:
0 Smith, Jim
1 Bates, Andrew
2 Kline, Jenny
3 Hale, Fred
4 NaN
Name: IP, dtype: object

Chained conditional count in Pandas

I have a dataframe that looks at how a form has been filled out. Here's an example:
ID Name Postcode Street Employer Salary
1 John NaN Craven Road NaN NaN
2 Sue TD2 NAN NaN 15000
3 Jimmy MW6 Blake Street Bank 40000
4 Laura QE2 Mill Lane NaN 20000
5 Sam NW2 Duke Avenue Farms 35000
6 Jordan SE6 NaN NaN NaN
7 NaN CB2 NaN Startup NaN `
I want to return a count of successively filled out columns on the condition that all previous columns have been filled. The final output should look something like:
Name Postcode Street Employer salary
6 5 3 2 2
Is there a good Pandas way of doing this? I suppose there could be a way of applying a mask so that if any previous boolean is given as zero the current column is also zero and then counting that but I'm not sure if that is the best way.
Thanks!

I think you can use notnull and cummin:
In [99]: df.notnull().cummin(axis=1).sum(axis=0)
Out[99]:
Name 6
Postcode 5
Street 3
Employer 2
Salary 2
dtype: int64
Although note that I had to replace your NAN (Sue's street) with a float NaN before I did that, and I assumed that ID was your index.
The cumulative minimum is one way to implement "applying a mask so that if any previous boolean is given as zero the current column is also zero", as you predicted would work.

Maybe cumprod BTW you have 'NAN' in your df, I try then as notnull here
df.notnull().cumprod(1).sum()
Out[59]:
ID 7
Name 6
Postcode 5
Street 4
Employer 2
Salary 2
dtype: int64