Python - function similar to VLOOKUP (Excel)

Question

i am trying to join two data frames but cannot get my head around the possibilities Python has to offer.

First dataframe:

ID MODEL   REQUESTS ORDERS
1  G         


        

Answer 1

I always found merge to be an easy way to do this:

df1.merge(df2[['MODEL', 'MAKE']], how = 'left')

However, I must admit it would not be as short and nice if you wanted to call the new column something else than 'MAKE'.