Append column to pandas dataframe

It seems in general you're just looking for a join:

> dat1 = pd.DataFrame({'dat1': [9,5]})
> dat2 = pd.DataFrame({'dat2': [7,6]})
> dat1.join(dat2)
   dat1  dat2
0     9     7
1     5     6

You can also use:

dat1 = pd.concat([dat1, dat2], axis=1)