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Duplicate a single row at index?

In the past hour I was searching here and couldn't find a very simple thing I need to do, duplicate a single row at index x, and just put in on index x+1.
df
a b
0 3 8
1 2 4
2 9 0
3 5 1
copy index 2 and insert it as is in the next row:
a b
0 3 8
1 2 4
2 9 0
3 9 0 # new row
4 5 1
What I tried is concat(with my own columns names) which make a mess.
line = pd.DataFrame({"date": date, "event": None}, index=[index+1])
return pd.concat([df.iloc[:index], line, df.iloc[index:]]).reset_index(drop=True)
How to simply duplicate a full row at a given index ?

You can use repeat(). Fill in the dictionary with the index and the key, and how many extra rows you would like to add as the value. This can work for multiple values.
d = {2:1}
df.loc[df.index.repeat(df.index.map(d).fillna(0)+1)].reset_index()
Output:
index a b
0 0 3 8
1 1 2 4
2 2 9 0
3 2 9 0
4 3 5 1

Got it.
df.loc[index+0.5] = df.loc[index].values
return df.sort_index().reset_index(drop = True)

How to find the last line and the diff of each line

I am trying to handle the following dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'ID':[1,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4],
'sum':[1,2,1,2,1,2,3,1,2,3,4,]})
Now I want to find the difference from the last row by each ID.
Specifically, I tried this code.
df['diff'] = df.groupby('ID')['sum'].diff(-1)
df
However, this would require a difference from one line behind.
Is there any way to determine the difference between each of the last rows with groupbuy?
Thank you for your help.

You can use transform('last') to get the last value per group:
df['diff'] = df['sum'].sub(df.groupby('ID')['sum'].transform('last'))
or using groupby.apply:
df['diff'] = df.groupby('ID')['sum'].apply(lambda x: x-x.iloc[-1])
output:
ID sum diff
0 1 1 -1
1 1 2 0
2 2 1 -1
3 2 2 0
4 3 1 -2
5 3 2 -1
6 3 3 0
7 4 1 -3
8 4 2 -2
9 4 3 -1
10 4 4 0

Filter a dataframe based on min values in one column by group in another column [duplicate]

I'm using groupby on a pandas dataframe to drop all rows that don't have the minimum of a specific column. Something like this:
df1 = df.groupby("item", as_index=False)["diff"].min()
However, if I have more than those two columns, the other columns (e.g. otherstuff in my example) get dropped. Can I keep those columns using groupby, or am I going to have to find a different way to drop the rows?
My data looks like:
item diff otherstuff
0 1 2 1
1 1 1 2
2 1 3 7
3 2 -1 0
4 2 1 3
5 2 4 9
6 2 -6 2
7 3 0 0
8 3 2 9
and should end up like:
item diff otherstuff
0 1 1 2
1 2 -6 2
2 3 0 0
but what I'm getting is:
item diff
0 1 1
1 2 -6
2 3 0
I've been looking through the documentation and can't find anything. I tried:
df1 = df.groupby(["item", "otherstuff"], as_index=false)["diff"].min()
df1 = df.groupby("item", as_index=false)["diff"].min()["otherstuff"]
df1 = df.groupby("item", as_index=false)["otherstuff", "diff"].min()
But none of those work (I realized with the last one that the syntax is meant for aggregating after a group is created).

Method #1: use idxmin() to get the indices of the elements of minimum diff, and then select those:
>>> df.loc[df.groupby("item")["diff"].idxmin()]
item diff otherstuff
1 1 1 2
6 2 -6 2
7 3 0 0
[3 rows x 3 columns]
Method #2: sort by diff, and then take the first element in each item group:
>>> df.sort_values("diff").groupby("item", as_index=False).first()
item diff otherstuff
0 1 1 2
1 2 -6 2
2 3 0 0
[3 rows x 3 columns]
Note that the resulting indices are different even though the row content is the same.

You can use DataFrame.sort_values with DataFrame.drop_duplicates:
df = df.sort_values(by='diff').drop_duplicates(subset='item')
print (df)
item diff otherstuff
6 2 -6 2
7 3 0 0
1 1 1 2
If possible multiple minimal values per groups and want all min rows use boolean indexing with transform for minimal values per groups:
print (df)
item diff otherstuff
0 1 2 1
1 1 1 2 <-multiple min
2 1 1 7 <-multiple min
3 2 -1 0
4 2 1 3
5 2 4 9
6 2 -6 2
7 3 0 0
8 3 2 9
print (df.groupby("item")["diff"].transform('min'))
0 1
1 1
2 1
3 -6
4 -6
5 -6
6 -6
7 0
8 0
Name: diff, dtype: int64
df = df[df.groupby("item")["diff"].transform('min') == df['diff']]
print (df)
item diff otherstuff
1 1 1 2
2 1 1 7
6 2 -6 2
7 3 0 0

The above answer worked great if there is / you want one min. In my case there could be multiple mins and I wanted all rows equal to min which .idxmin() doesn't give you. This worked
def filter_group(dfg, col):
return dfg[dfg[col] == dfg[col].min()]
df = pd.DataFrame({'g': ['a'] * 6 + ['b'] * 6, 'v1': (list(range(3)) + list(range(3))) * 2, 'v2': range(12)})
df.groupby('g',group_keys=False).apply(lambda x: filter_group(x,'v1'))
As an aside, .filter() is also relevant to this question but didn't work for me.

I tried everyone's method and I couldn't get it to work properly. Instead I did the process step-by-step and ended up with the correct result.
df.sort_values(by='item', inplace=True, ignore_index=True)
df.drop_duplicates(subset='diff', inplace=True, ignore_index=True)
df.sort_values(by=['diff'], inplace=True, ignore_index=True)
For a little more explanation:
Sort items by the minimum value you want
Drop the duplicates of the column you want to sort with
Resort the data because the data is still sorted by the minimum values

If you know that all of your "items" have more than one record you can sort, then use duplicated:
df.sort_values(by='diff').duplicated(subset='item', keep='first')

How to drop row with bracket in Pandas

I would like to drop the [] for a given df
df=pd.DataFrame(dict(a=[1,2,4,[],5]))
Such that the expected output will be
a
0 1
1 2
2 4
3 5
Edit:
or to make thing more interesting, what if we have two columns and some of the cell is with [] to be dropped.
df=pd.DataFrame(dict(a=[1,2,4,[],5],b=[2,[],1,[],6]))

One way is to get the string repr and filter:
df = df[df['a'].map(repr)!='[]']
Output:
a
0 1
1 2
2 4
4 5
For multiple columns, we could apply the above:
out = df[df.apply(lambda c: c.map(repr)).ne('[]').all(axis=1)]
Output:
a b
0 1 2
2 4 1
4 5 6

You can't use equality directly as pandas will try to align a Series and a list, but you can use isin:
df[~df['a'].isin([[]])]
output:
a
0 1
1 2
2 4
4 5
To act on all columns:
df[~df.isin([[]]).any(1)]
output:
a b
0 1 2
2 4 1
4 5 6

Pandas row manipulation

I'm trying to replace a row in a dataframe with the row of another dataframe only if they share a common column.
Here is the first dataframe:
index no foo
0 0 1
1 1 2
2 2 3
3 3 4
4 4 5
5 5 6
and the second dataframe:
index no foo
0 2 aaa
1 3 bbb
2 22 3
3 33 4
4 44 5
5 55 6
I'd like my result to be
index no foo
0 0 1
1 1 2
2 2 aaa
3 3 bbb
4 4 5
5 5 6
The result of the inner merge between both dataframes returns the correct rows, but I'm having trouble inserting them at the correct index in the first dataframe
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

This should work as well
df1['foo'] = pd.merge(df1, df2, on='no', how='left').apply(lambda r: r['foo_y'] if r['foo_y'] == r['foo_y'] else r['foo_x'], axis=1)

You could use apply, there is probably a better way than this:
In [67]:
# define a function that takes a row and tries to find a match
def func(x):
# find if 'no' value matches, test the length of the series
if len(df1.loc[df1.no ==x.no, 'foo']) > 0:
return df1.loc[df1.no ==x.no, 'foo'].values[0] # return the first array value
else:
return x.foo # no match so return the existing value
# call apply and using a lamda apply row-wise (axis=1 means row-wise)
df.foo = df.apply(lambda row: func(row), axis=1)
df
Out[67]:
index no foo
0 0 0 1
1 1 1 2
2 2 2 aaa
3 3 3 bbb
4 4 4 5
5 5 5 6
[6 rows x 3 columns]