pandas three-way joining multiple dataframes on columns

Question

I have 3 CSV files. Each has the first column as the (string) names of people, while all the other columns in each dataframe are attributes of that person.

How can

Answer 1

This can also be done as follows for a list of dataframes df_list:

df = df_list[0]
for df_ in df_list[1:]:
    df = df.merge(df_, on='join_col_name')

or if the dataframes are in a generator object (e.g. to reduce memory consumption):

df = next(df_list)
for df_ in df_list:
    df = df.merge(df_, on='join_col_name')