I have two dataframes and I'm comparing their columns labeled 'B'. If the value of column B in df2 matches the value of column B in df1, I want to extract the value of column C from df2 and add it to a new column in df1. Example:
df1
df2
Expected Result of df1:
I've tried the following. I know that this checks if there's a match of column B in both the dataframes - it returns a boolean value of True/False in the 'New' column. Is there a way to extract the value indicated under column 'C' when there's a match and add it to the 'New' column in df1 instead of the boolean values?
df1 = pd.read_csv('df1.csv')
df2 = pd.read_csv('df2.csv')
df1['New'] = df2['B'].isin(df1['B'])
import pandas as pd
df1 = pd.DataFrame({'B': ['a', 'b', 'f', 'd', 'h'], 'C':[1, 5, 777, 10, 3]})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'B': ['k', 'l', 'f', 'j', 'h'], 'C':[0, 9, 555, 15, 1]})
ind = df2[df2['B'].isin(df1['B'])].index
df1.loc[ind, 'new'] = df2.loc[ind, 'C']
df2
B C
0 k 0
1 l 9
2 f 555
3 j 15
4 h 1
Output df1
B C new
0 a 1 NaN
1 b 5 NaN
2 f 777 555.0
3 d 10 NaN
4 h 3 1.0
Here in ind are obtained indexes of rows df2 where there are matches. Further using loc, where on the left are the row indices, on the right are the column names.