Generate random no of days based on random selection of columns

Question

I have a dataframe like as shown below. Thanks to SO community for helping with the below

df1 = pd.DataFrame({\'person_id\': [11,11, 12, 13, 14],
                     


        

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

>>> import random
>>> rand_numbers = pd.Series(random.randint(*sorted((0, -1*i if random.choice((0,1)) else j))) for i,j in zip(df_offset.min_days_to_prev_year, df_offset.min_days_to_next_year))
>>> df_offset['rand_numbers'] = rand_numbers
>>> df_offset
   person_id      dates  min_days_to_prev_year  min_days_to_next_year  rand_numbers
0         11 1961-12-30                    363                      1          -235
1         12 1967-05-29                    148                    216           168
2         13 1957-01-01                      0                    364             2
3         14 1959-07-27                    207                    157           132