'merge' 2 dataframes on elements from list?

Question

I want to do the following merge (hard to describe in words): This are my Dataframes

df8=pd.DataFrame({\'names\':[[\'Hans\',\'Meier\'],[\'Debby\',\'Harry\',\'Pet         


        

Answer 1

Using s.get:

d=df9.set_index('caller')['text']
df8=df8.assign(content=df8.names.apply(lambda x:[d.get(i) for i in x]))
print(df8)

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                   names                                        content
0          [Hans, Meier]                  [[hi im hans], [hi im meier]]
1  [Debby, Harry, Peter]  [[hi im debby], [hi im harry], [hi im peter]]