Pandas: IndexingError: Unalignable boolean Series provided as indexer - python

I'm trying to run what I think is simple code to eliminate any columns with all NaNs, but can't get this to work (axis = 1 works just fine when eliminating rows):
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':[1,2,np.nan,np.nan], 'b':[4,np.nan,6,np.nan], 'c':[np.nan, 8,9,np.nan], 'd':[np.nan,np.nan,np.nan,np.nan]})
df = df[df.notnull().any(axis = 0)]
print df
Full error:
raise IndexingError('Unalignable boolean Series provided as 'pandas.core.indexing.IndexingError: Unalignable boolean Series provided as indexer (index of the boolean Series and of the indexed object do not match
Expected output:
a b c
0 1.0 4.0 NaN
1 2.0 NaN 8.0
2 NaN 6.0 9.0
3 NaN NaN NaN

You need loc, because filter by columns:
print (df.notnull().any(axis = 0))
a True
b True
c True
d False
dtype: bool
df = df.loc[:, df.notnull().any(axis = 0)]
print (df)
a b c
0 1.0 4.0 NaN
1 2.0 NaN 8.0
2 NaN 6.0 9.0
3 NaN NaN NaN
Or filter columns and then select by []:
print (df.columns[df.notnull().any(axis = 0)])
Index(['a', 'b', 'c'], dtype='object')
df = df[df.columns[df.notnull().any(axis = 0)]]
print (df)
a b c
0 1.0 4.0 NaN
1 2.0 NaN 8.0
2 NaN 6.0 9.0
3 NaN NaN NaN
Or dropna with parameter how='all' for remove all columns filled by NaNs only:
print (df.dropna(axis=1, how='all'))
a b c
0 1.0 4.0 NaN
1 2.0 NaN 8.0
2 NaN 6.0 9.0
3 NaN NaN NaN

You can use dropna with axis=1 and thresh=1:
In[19]:
df.dropna(axis=1, thresh=1)
Out[19]:
a b c
0 1.0 4.0 NaN
1 2.0 NaN 8.0
2 NaN 6.0 9.0
3 NaN NaN NaN
This will drop any column which doesn't have at least 1 non-NaN value which will mean any column with all NaN will get dropped
The reason what you tried failed is because the boolean mask:
In[20]:
df.notnull().any(axis = 0)
Out[20]:
a True
b True
c True
d False
dtype: bool
cannot be aligned on the index which is what is used by default, as this produces a boolean mask on the columns

I was facing the same issue while using a function in fairlearn package. Resetting the index inplace worked for me.

I came here because I tried to filter the 1st 2 letters like this:
filtered = df[(df.Name[0:2] != 'xx')]
The fix was:
filtered = df[(df.Name.str[0:2] != 'xx')]

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Python Dataframe Duplicated Columns while Merging multple times

I have a main dataframe and a sub dataframe. I want to merge each column in sub dataframe into main dataframe with main dataframe column as a reference. I have successfully arrived at my desired answer, except that I see duplicated columns of the main dataframe. Below are the my expected and present answers.
Present solution:
df = pd.DataFrame({'Ref':[1,2,3,4]})
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'A':[2,3],'Z':[1,2]})
df = [df.merge(df1[col_name],left_on='Ref',right_on=col_name,how='left') for col_name in df1.columns]
df = pd.concat(df,axis=1)
df =
Ref A Ref Z
0 1 NaN 1 1.0
1 2 2.0 2 2.0
2 3 3.0 3 NaN
3 4 NaN 4 NaN
Expected Answer:
df =
Ref A Z
0 1 NaN 1.0
1 2 2.0 2.0
2 3 3.0 NaN
3 4 NaN NaN
Update
Use duplicated:
>>> df.loc[:, ~df.columns.duplicated()]
Ref A Z
0 1 NaN 1.0
1 2 2.0 2.0
2 3 3.0 NaN
3 4 NaN NaN
Old answer
You can use:
# Your code
...
df = pd.concat(df, axis=1)
# Use pop and insert to cleanup your dataframe
df.insert(0, 'Ref', df.pop('Ref').iloc[:, 0])
Output:
>>> df
Ref A Z
0 1 NaN 1.0
1 2 2.0 2.0
2 3 3.0 NaN
3 4 NaN NaN
What about setting 'Ref' col as index while getting dataframe list. (And resetting index such that you get back Ref as a column)
df = pd.DataFrame({'Ref':[1,2,3,4]})
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'A':[2,3],'Z':[1,2]})
df = [df.merge(df1[col_name],left_on='Ref',right_on=col_name,how='left').set_index('Ref') for col_name in df1.columns]
df = pd.concat(df,axis=1)
df = df.reset_index()
Ref A Z
1 NaN 1.0
2 2.0 2.0
3 3.0 NaN
4 NaN NaN
This is a reduction process. Instead of the list comprehension use for - loop, or even reduce:
from functools import reduce
reduce(lambda x, y : x.merge(df1[y],left_on='Ref',right_on=y,how='left'), df1.columns, df)
Ref A Z
0 1 NaN 1.0
1 2 2.0 2.0
2 3 3.0 NaN
3 4 NaN NaN
The above is similar to:
for y in df1.columns:
df = df.merge(df1[y],left_on='Ref',right_on=y,how='left')
df
Ref A Z
0 1 NaN 1.0
1 2 2.0 2.0
2 3 3.0 NaN
3 4 NaN NaN

how to append two dataframes with different column names and avoid columns with nan values

xyarr= [[0,1,2],[1,1,3],[2,1,2]]
df1 = pd.DataFrame(xyarr, columns=['a', 'b','c'])
df2 = pd.DataFrame([['text','text2']], columns=['x','y'])
df3 = pd.concat([df1,df2],axis=0, ignore_index=True)
df3 will have NaN values, from the empty columns a b c.
a b c x y
0 0.0 1.0 2.0 NaN NaN
1 1.0 1.0 3.0 NaN NaN
2 2.0 1.0 2.0 NaN NaN
3 NaN NaN NaN text text2
I want to save df3 to a csv, but without the extra commas
any suggestions?
As pd.concat is an outer join by default, you will get the NaN values from the empty columns a b c. If you use other Pandas function e.g. .join() which is left join by default, you can get around the problem here.
You can try using .join(), as follows:
df3 = df1.join(df2)
Result:
print(df3)
a b c x y
0 0 1 2 text text2
1 1 1 3 NaN NaN
2 2 1 2 NaN NaN

Compare two pandas dataframes and replace value based on condition

I have the following two pandas dataframes:
df1
A B C
0 1 2 1
1 7 3 6
2 3 10 11
df2
A B C
0 2 0 2
1 8 4 7
Where A,B and C are column headings of both dataframes.
I am trying to compare columns of df1 to columns of df2 such that the first row in df2 is the lower bound and the second row is the upper bound. Any values in df1 outside the lower and upper bound (column wise) needs to be replaced with NaN.
So in this example the output should be:
A B C
0 nan 2 nan
1 7 3 6
2 3 nan nan
As a basic I am trying df1[df1 < df2] = np.nan, but this does not work. I have also tried .where() but not getting any success.
Would appreciate some help here, thanks.
IIUC
df=df1.where(df1.ge(df2.iloc[0])&df1.lt(df2.iloc[1]))
A B C
0 NaN 2.0 NaN
1 7.0 3.0 6.0
2 3.0 NaN NaN
You could do something like:
lower = df1 < df2.iloc[0, :]
upper = df1 > df2.iloc[1, :]
df1[lower | upper] = np.nan
print(df1)
Output
A B C
0 NaN 2.0 NaN
1 7.0 3.0 6.0
2 3.0 NaN NaN
Here is one with df.clip and mask:
df1.mask(df1.ne(df1.clip(lower = df2.loc[0],upper = df1.loc[1],axis=1)))
A B C
0 NaN 2.0 NaN
1 7.0 3.0 6.0
2 3.0 NaN NaN
A slightly different approach using between,
df1.apply(lambda x:x.where(x.between(*df2.values, False)), axis=1)

find columns containing all nan after grouping pandas

in a dataframe df how can I find the columns that contains all nan after grouping the rows?
In [97]: df
Out[97]:
a b group
0 NaN NaN a
1 0.0 NaN a
2 2.0 NaN a
3 1.0 7.0 b
4 1.0 3.0 b
5 7.0 4.0 b
6 2.0 6.0 c
7 9.0 6.0 c
8 3.0 0.0 c
9 9.0 0.0 c
in this case the desired output should be
group: a - columns: b
Use set_index by grouping column first, then find all NaNs by isnull.
Then groupby and aggregate all. Last reshape by stack and create new DataFrame with all groups and columns names:
print (df.set_index('group').isnull().groupby('group').all())
a b
group
a False True
b False False
c False False
a = df.set_index('group').isnull().groupby('group').all().stack()
b = pd.DataFrame(a[a].index.values.tolist(), columns=['group','cols'])
print (b)
group cols
0 a b
try this ?
df.groupby('group').sum().unstack()[df.groupby('group').sum().unstack().isnull()].reset_index()
level_0 group 0
0 b a NaN
Are you looking for this ? i.e get the group name and the value column that as full Nan values
vals = [(i['group'].iloc[0],i.columns[i.isnull().all()].tolist()) for _,i in df.groupby('group')]
Output:
[('a', ['b']), ('b', []), ('c', [])]

I am trying to fill all NaN values in rows with number data types to zero in pandas

I have a DateFrame with a mixture of string, and float rows. The float rows are all still whole numbers and were only changed to floats because their were missing values. I want to fill in all the NaN rows that are numbers with zero while leaving the NaN in columns that are strings. Here is what I have currently.
df.select_dtypes(include=['int', 'float']).fillna(0, inplace=True)
This doesn't work and I think it is because .select_dtypes() returns a view of the DataFrame so the .fillna() doesn't work. Is there a method similar to this to fill all the NaNs on only the float rows.
Use either DF.combine_first (does not act inplace):
df.combine_first(df.select_dtypes(include=[np.number]).fillna(0))
or DF.update (modifies inplace):
df.update(df.select_dtypes(include=[np.number]).fillna(0))
The reason why fillna fails is because DF.select_dtypes returns a completely new dataframe which although forms a subset of the original DF, but is not really a part of it. It behaves as a completely new entity in itself. So any modifications done to it will not affect the DF it gets derived from.
Note that np.number selects all numeric type.
Your pandas.DataFrame.select_dtypes approach is good; you've just got to cross the finish line:
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [np.nan, 'string', 'string', 'more string'], 'B': [np.nan, np.nan, 3, 4], 'C': [4, np.nan, 5, 6]})
>>> df
A B C
0 NaN NaN 4.0
1 string NaN NaN
2 string 3.0 5.0
3 more string 4.0 6.0
Don't try to perform the in-place fillna here (there's a time and place for inplace=True, but here is not one). You're right in that what's returned by select_dtypes is basically a view. Create a new dataframe called filled and join the filled (or "fixed") columns back with your original data:
>>> filled = df.select_dtypes(include=['int', 'float']).fillna(0)
>>> filled
B C
0 0.0 4.0
1 0.0 0.0
2 3.0 5.0
3 4.0 6.0
>>> df = df.join(filled, rsuffix='_filled')
>>> df
A B C B_filled C_filled
0 NaN NaN 4.0 0.0 4.0
1 string NaN NaN 0.0 0.0
2 string 3.0 5.0 3.0 5.0
3 more string 4.0 6.0 4.0 6.0
Then you can drop whatever original columns you had to keep only the "filled" ones:
>>> df.drop([x[:x.find('_filled')] for x in df.columns if '_filled' in x], axis=1, inplace=True)
>>> df
A B_filled C_filled
0 NaN 0.0 4.0
1 string 0.0 0.0
2 string 3.0 5.0
3 more string 4.0 6.0
Consider a dataframe like this
col1 col2 col3 id
0 1 1 1 a
1 0 NaN 1 a
2 NaN 1 1 NaN
3 1 0 1 b
You can select the numeric columns and fillna
num_cols = df.select_dtypes(include=[np.number]).columns
df[num_cols]=df.select_dtypes(include=[np.number]).fillna(0)
col1 col2 col3 id
0 1 1 1 a
1 0 0 1 a
2 0 1 1 NaN
3 1 0 1 b

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