create new column in dataframe using fuzzywuzzy

Question

I have a dataframe in pandas where I am using fuzzywuzzy package in python to match first column in the dataframe with second column.

I hav

Answer 1

You're passed a Series to work with inside the apply function, representing the current row here. In your code, you're effectively ignoring this Series and trying to call partial_ratio with the two whole columns of the DataFrame each time (driver[col]).

A minor change to your code should hopefully give you what you want.

d = DataFrame({'one': ['fuzz', 'wuzz'], 'two': ['fizz', 'woo']})

d.apply(lambda s: fuzz.partial_ratio(s['one'], s['two']), axis=1)

0    75
1    33
dtype: int64

(Interestingly, the partial_ratio function will accept a Series as input, but only because it converts it internally into a string. :)