Create Excel-like SUMIFS in Pandas

Question

I recently learned about pandas and was happy to see its analytics functionality. I am trying to convert Excel array functions into the Pandas equivalent to au

Answer 1

I'm sure there is a better way, but this did it in a loop:

for idx, eachRecord in reportAggregateDF.T.iteritems():
reportAggregateDF['PORT_WEIGHT'].ix[idx] = reportAggregateDF['SEC_WEIGHT_RATE'][(reportAggregateDF['PORT_ID'] == portID) &            
    (reportAggregateDF['SEC_ID'] == 0) &            
    (reportAggregateDF['GROUP_LIST'] == " ") &             
    (reportAggregateDF['START_DATE'] == reportAggregateDF['START_DATE'].ix[idx]) &             
    (reportAggregateDF['END_DATE'] == reportAggregateDF['END_DATE'].ix[idx])].sum()