pandas apply function with parameters from multiple columns code example

Example 1: apply a function to multiple columns in pandas

In [49]: df
Out[49]: 
          0         1
0  1.000000  0.000000
1 -0.494375  0.570994
2  1.000000  0.000000
3  1.876360 -0.229738
4  1.000000  0.000000

In [50]: def f(x):    
   ....:  return x[0] + x[1]  
   ....:  

In [51]: df.apply(f, axis=1) #passes a Series object, row-wise
Out[51]: 
0    1.000000
1    0.076619
2    1.000000
3    1.646622
4    1.000000

Example 2: pandas dataframe apply function with multiple arguments

def some_func(row, var1):
    return '{0}-{1}-{2}'.format(row['A'], row['B'], var1)

df['C'] = df.apply(some_func(row, var1='DOG'), axis=1)

df


       A    B            C
0    foo    x    foo-x-DOG
1    bar    y    bar-y-DOG