pandas DataFrame set value on boolean mask

Question

I\'m trying to set a number of different in a pandas DataFrame all to the same value. I thought I understood boolean indexing for pandas, but I haven\'t found any resources

Answer 1

If you want to use different columns to create your mask, you need to call the values property of the dataframe.

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Example

Let's say we want to, replace values in A_1 and 'A_2' according to a mask in B_1 and B_2. For example, replace those values in A (to 999) that corresponds to nulls in B.

The original dataframe:

   A_1  A_2  B_1  B_2
0    1    4    y    n
1    2    5    n  NaN
2    3    6  NaN  NaN

The desired dataframe

   A_1  A_2  B_1  B_2
0    1    4    y    n
1    2  999    n  NaN
2  999  999  NaN  NaN

The code:

df = pd.DataFrame({
     'A_1': [1, 2, 3], 
     'A_2': [4, 5, 6], 
     'B_1': ['y', 'n', np.nan], 
     'B_2': ['n', np.nan, np.nan]})

_mask = df[['B_1', 'B_2']].notnull().values
df[['A_1', 'A_2']] = df[['A_1','A_2']].where(_mask, other=999)



   A_1  A_2
0    1    4
1    2  999
2  999  999