Get first row of dataframe in Python Pandas based on criteria
This tutorial is a very good one for pandas slicing. Make sure you check it out. Onto some snippets... To slice a dataframe with a condition, you use this format:
>>> df[condition]
This will return a slice of your dataframe which you can index using iloc
. Here are your examples:
Get first row where A > 3 (returns row 2)
>>> df[df.A > 3].iloc[0] A 4 B 6 C 3 Name: 2, dtype: int64
If what you actually want is the row number, rather than using iloc
, it would be df[df.A > 3].index[0]
.
Get first row where A > 4 AND B > 3:
>>> df[(df.A > 4) & (df.B > 3)].iloc[0] A 5 B 4 C 5 Name: 4, dtype: int64
Get first row where A > 3 AND (B > 3 OR C > 2) (returns row 2)
>>> df[(df.A > 3) & ((df.B > 3) | (df.C > 2))].iloc[0] A 4 B 6 C 3 Name: 2, dtype: int64
Now, with your last case we can write a function that handles the default case of returning the descending-sorted frame:
>>> def series_or_default(X, condition, default_col, ascending=False):
... sliced = X[condition]
... if sliced.shape[0] == 0:
... return X.sort_values(default_col, ascending=ascending).iloc[0]
... return sliced.iloc[0]
>>>
>>> series_or_default(df, df.A > 6, 'A')
A 5
B 4
C 5
Name: 4, dtype: int64
As expected, it returns row 4.
you can take care of the first 3 items with slicing and head:
df[df.A>=4].head(1)
df[(df.A>=4)&(df.B>=3)].head(1)
df[(df.A>=4)&((df.B>=3) * (df.C>=2))].head(1)
The condition in case nothing comes back you can handle with a try or an if...
try:
output = df[df.A>=6].head(1)
assert len(output) == 1
except:
output = df.sort_values('A',ascending=False).head(1)
For existing matches, use query
:
df.query(' A > 3' ).head(1)
Out[33]:
A B C
2 4 6 3
df.query(' A > 4 and B > 3' ).head(1)
Out[34]:
A B C
4 5 4 5
df.query(' A > 3 and (B > 3 or C > 2)' ).head(1)
Out[35]:
A B C
2 4 6 3