The following is slower than the approaches timed here, but we can compute the extra column based on the contents of more than one column, and more than two values can be computed for the extra column.
Simple example using just the "Set" column:
def set_color(row):
if row["Set"] == "Z":
return "red"
else:
return "green"
df = df.assign(color=df.apply(set_color, axis=1))
print(df)
Set Type color
0 Z A red
1 Z B red
2 X B green
3 Y C green
Example with more colours and more columns taken into account:
def set_color(row):
if row["Set"] == "Z":
return "red"
elif row["Type"] == "C":
return "blue"
else:
return "green"
df = df.assign(color=df.apply(set_color, axis=1))
print(df)
Set Type color
0 Z A red
1 Z B red
2 X B green
3 Y C blue
Edit (21/06/2019): Using plydata
It is also possible to use plydata to do this kind of things (this seems even slower than using assign and apply, though).
from plydata import define, if_else
Simple if_else:
df = define(df, color=if_else('Set=="Z"', '"red"', '"green"'))
print(df)
Set Type color
0 Z A red
1 Z B red
2 X B green
3 Y C green
Nested if_else:
df = define(df, color=if_else(
'Set=="Z"',
'"red"',
if_else('Type=="C"', '"green"', '"blue"')))
print(df)
Set Type color
0 Z A red
1 Z B red
2 X B blue
3 Y C green
