how to use if function while setting conditons for a new column in dataframe code example

Example: add a value to an existing field in pandas dataframe after checking conditions

# Create a new column called based on the value of another column
# np.where assigns True if gapminder.lifeExp>=50 
gapminder['lifeExp_ind'] = np.where(gapminder.lifeExp >= 50, True, False)
gapminder.head(n=3)