Find points in cells through pandas dataframes of coordinates

Question

I have to find which points are inside a grid of square cells, given the points coordinates and the coordinates of the bounds of the cells, through two pandas dataframes. I'm calling dfc the dataframe containing the code and the boundary coordinates of the cells (I simplify the problem, in the real analysis I have a big grid with geographical points and tons of points to check):

Code,minx,miny,maxx,maxy
01,0.0,0.0,2.0,2.0
02,2.0,2.0,3.0,3.0

and dfp the dataframe containing an Id and the coordinates of the points:

Id,x,y
0,1.5,1.5
1,1.1,1.1
2,2.2,2.2
3,1.3,1.3
4,3.4,1.4
5,2.0,1.5

Now I would like to perform a search returning in dfc dataframe a new column (called 'GridCode') of the grid in which the point is in. The cells should be perfectly squared, so I would like to perform an analysis through:

a = np.where(
            (dfp['x'] > dfc['minx']) &
            (dfp['x'] < dfc['maxx']) &
            (dfp['y'] > dfc['miny']) &
            (dfp['y'] < dfc['maxy']),
            r2['Code'],
            'na')

avoiding several loops on the dataframes. The lenghts of the dataframes are not the same. The resulting dataframe should be as follows:

   Id    x    y GridCode
0   0  1.5  1.5   01
1   1  1.1  1.1   01
2   2  2.2  2.2   02
3   3  1.3  1.3   01
4   4  3.4  1.4   na
5   5  2.0  1.5   na

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Probably a better way, but since this has been sitting out there for awhile..

Using Pandas boolean indexing to filter the dfc data frame instead of np.where()

def findGrid(dfp):  
    c = dfc[(dfp['x'] > dfc['minx']) &
            (dfp['x'] < dfc['maxx']) &
            (dfp['y'] > dfc['miny']) &
            (dfp['y'] < dfc['maxy'])].Code

    if len(c) == 0:        
        return None
    else:        
        return c.iat[0]

Then use the pandas apply() function

dfp['GridCode'] = dfp.apply(findGrid,axis=1)

Will yield this

    Id  x   y   GridCode
0   0   1.5 1.5 1
1   1   1.1 1.1 1
2   2   2.2 2.2 2
3   3   1.3 1.3 1
4   4   3.4 1.4 NaN
5   5   2.0 1.5 NaN