Create Column with ELIF in Pandas

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Question

I am having trouble figuring out how to create new DataFrame column based on the values in two other columns. I need to use if/elif/else l

Answer 1

I tried the following and the result was much faster. Hope it's helpful for others.

df['combo'] = 'other'
df.loc[df['mobile'] == 'mobile', 'combo'] = 'mobile'
df.loc[df['tablet'] == 'tablet', 'combo'] = 'tablet'