Fastest way to perform complex search on pandas dataframe

Question

I am trying to figure out the fastest way to perform search and sort on a pandas dataframe. Below are before and after dataframes of what I am trying to accomplish.

Answer 1

This is network problem , so we using networkx , notice , here you can have more than two stops , which means you can have some case like NY-DC-WA-NC

import networkx as nx
G=nx.from_pandas_edgelist(df, 'flightTo', 'flightFrom')

# create the nx object from pandas dataframe

l=list(nx.connected_components(G))

# then we get the list of components which as tied to each other , 
# in a net work graph , they are linked 
L=[dict.fromkeys(y,x) for x, y in enumerate(l)]

# then from the above we can create our map dict , 
# since every components connected to each other , 
# then we just need to pick of of them as key , then map with others

d={k: v for d in L for k, v in d.items()}

# create the dict for groupby , since we need _from as first item and _to as last item 
grouppd=dict(zip(df.columns.tolist(),['first','last']*3))
df.groupby(df.flightTo.map(d)).agg(grouppd) # then using agg with dict yield your output 

Out[22]: 
         flightTo flightFrom  toNum  fromNum  toCode  fromCode
flightTo                                                      
0             ABC        XYZ    123      893    8000      9999
1             AAA        CCC    473      341    5555      5555

Installation networkx

• Pip: pip install networkx
• Anaconda: conda install -c anaconda networkx