Comparing Two Dataframes with different dimensions-CodePudding

Using this as a starting point:

a=[['username1','Tesco','09:28:27'],['username2','Target','09:01:10'],['username3','Lily','08:27:48']]
df_a=pd.DataFrame(a,columns=['username','pos_name','end_visit'])

b=[['Done','2022-03-13','09:28:00'],['Done','2022-03-13','09:01:00'],['Done','2022-03-13','08:42:00'],['Done','2022-03-13','08:27:00']]
df_b=pd.DataFrame(b,columns=['planogramme','date','hour'])

The result is 2 dataframes that looks like this:

username    pos_name    end_visit
0   username1   Tesco   09:28:27
1   username2   Target  09:01:10
2   username3   Lily    08:27:48

    planogramme date    hour
0   Done    2022-03-13  09:28:00
1   Done    2022-03-13  09:01:00
2   Done    2022-03-13  08:42:00
3   Done    2022-03-13  08:27:00

As you can see,it's not the same dimensions and i want to actually compare the hour of 'df_b' with the 'end_visit' of 'df_a', if they are the same i want to create a new column on 'df_a' and copy the value of df_a['planogramme'],in the end it would need to look like something like this

 username   pos_name    end_visit   plannograme_done
    0   username1   Tesco   09:28:27   Done
    1   username2   Target  09:01:10   Done
    2   username3   Lily    08:27:48   Done

The problem is that for username3 for example,it needs to iterate over all the rows of 'df_b' and not return the value of the 2nd row but rather the 3rd one.

CodePudding user response：

The easiest approach would be to extract the hour from df_a:

df_a['hour'] = df_a['end_visit'].str[:5] ':00'
df_a
    username    pos_name    end_visit   hour
0   username1   Tesco   09:28:27    09:28:00
1   username2   Target  09:01:10    09:01:00
2   username3   Lily    08:27:48    08:27:00

Then merge df_a and df_b on hour:

df_a.merge(df_b, on = 'hour')

Output:

username    pos_name    end_visit   hour    planogramme date
0   username1   Tesco   09:28:27    09:28:00    Done    2022-03-13
1   username2   Target  09:01:10    09:01:00    Done    2022-03-13
2   username3   Lily    08:27:48    08:27:00    Done    2022-03-13