Check if column value is in other columns in pandas

Question

I have the following dataframe in pandas

  target   A       B      C
0 cat      bridge  cat    brush  
1 brush    dog     cat    shoe
2 bridge   cat     shoe         


        

Answer 1

You can use eq, for drop column pop if neech check by rows:

mask = df.eq(df.pop('target'), axis=0)
print (mask)
       A      B      C
0  False   True  False
1  False  False  False
2  False  False   True

And then if need check at least one True add any:

mask = df.eq(df.pop('target'), axis=0).any(axis=1)
print (mask)
0     True
1    False
2     True
dtype: bool

df['new'] = df.eq(df.pop('target'), axis=0).any(axis=1)
print (df)
        A     B       C    new
0  bridge   cat   brush   True
1     dog   cat    shoe  False
2     cat  shoe  bridge   True

But if need check all values in column use isin:

mask = df.isin(df.pop('target').values.tolist())
print (mask)
       A      B      C
0   True   True   True
1  False   True  False
2   True  False   True

And if want check if all values are True add all:

df['new'] = df.isin(df.pop('target').values.tolist()).all(axis=1)
print (df)
        A     B       C    new
0  bridge   cat   brush   True
1     dog   cat    shoe  False
2     cat  shoe  bridge  False