Merge two different dataframes on different column names [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can also use join with default left join or merge, last if necessary remove rows with NaNs by dropna:

print (df1.join(df2.set_index('A'), on='A').dropna())
    A    B   C  BB   CC  DD
0  A1  123  K0  B0  121  D0
1  A1  345  K1  B0  121  D0
3  A3  146  K1  B3  345  D1

---

print (pd.merge(df1, df2, on='A', how='left').dropna())
    A    B   C  BB   CC  DD
0  A1  123  K0  B0  121  D0
1  A1  345  K1  B0  121  D0
3  A3  146  K1  B3  345  D1

EDIT:

I think you need inner join (by default, so on='inner' can be omit):

Both_DFs = pd.merge(df1,df2, left_on=['A','B'],right_on=['A','CC'])
print (Both_DFs)
    A    B   C  BB   CC  DD
0  A1  121  K0  B0  121  D0