Equivalent of Paste R to Python

Question

I am a new python afficionado. For R users, there is one function : paste that helps to concatenate two or more variables in a dataframe. It\'s very useful. For example Suppose

Answer 1

For this particular case, the paste operator in R is closest to Python's format which was added in Python 2.6. It's newer and somewhat more flexible than the older % operator.

For a purely Python-ic answer without using numpy or pandas, here is one way to do it using your original data in the form of a list of lists (this could also have been done as a list of dict, but that seemed more cluttered to me).

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
names=['categorie','titre','tarifMin','lieu','long','lat','img','dateSortie']

records=[[
    'zoo',   'Aquar',     0.0,'Aquar',2.385,48.89,'ilo',0],[
    'zoo',   'Aquar',     4.5,'Aquar',2.408,48.83,'ilo',0],[
    'lieu',  'Jardi',     0.0,'Jardi',2.320,48.86,'ilo',0],[
    'lieu',  'Bois',      0.0,'Bois', 2.455,48.82,'ilo',0],[
    'espac', 'Canal',     0.0,'Canal',2.366,48.87,'ilo',0],[
    'espac', 'Canal',    -1.0,'Canal',2.384,48.89,'ilo',0],[
    'parc',  'Le Ma',    20.0,'Le Ma', 2.353,48.87,'ilo',0] ]

def prix(p):
    if (p != -1):
        return 'C  partir de {} €uros'.format(p)
    return 'sans prix indique'

def msg(a):
    return 'Evenement permanent  --> {}, {} {}'.format(a[0],a[1],prix(a[2]))

[m.append(msg(m)) for m in records]

from pprint import pprint

pprint(records)

The result is this:

[['zoo',
  'Aquar',
  0.0,
  'Aquar',
  2.385,
  48.89,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> zoo, Aquar C  partir de 0.0 \xe2\x82\xacuros'],
 ['zoo',
  'Aquar',
  4.5,
  'Aquar',
  2.408,
  48.83,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> zoo, Aquar C  partir de 4.5 \xe2\x82\xacuros'],
 ['lieu',
  'Jardi',
  0.0,
  'Jardi',
  2.32,
  48.86,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> lieu, Jardi C  partir de 0.0 \xe2\x82\xacuros'],
 ['lieu',
  'Bois',
  0.0,
  'Bois',
  2.455,
  48.82,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> lieu, Bois C  partir de 0.0 \xe2\x82\xacuros'],
 ['espac',
  'Canal',
  0.0,
  'Canal',
  2.366,
  48.87,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> espac, Canal C  partir de 0.0 \xe2\x82\xacuros'],
 ['espac',
  'Canal',
  -1.0,
  'Canal',
  2.384,
  48.89,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> espac, Canal sans prix indique'],
 ['parc',
  'Le Ma',
  20.0,
  'Le Ma',
  2.353,
  48.87,
  'ilo',
  0,
  'Evenement permanent  --> parc, Le Ma C  partir de 20.0 \xe2\x82\xacuros']]

Note that although I've defined a list names it isn't actually used. One could define a dictionary with the names of the titles as the key and the field number (starting from 0) as the value, but I didn't bother with this to try to keep the example simple.

The functions prix and msg are fairly simple. The only tricky portion is the list comprehension [m.append(msg(m)) for m in records] which iterates through all of the records, and modifies each to append your new field, created via a call to msg.