pandas if in code example

Example 1: pandas if python

import pandas as pd

names = {'First_name': ['Jon','Bill','Maria','Emma']}
df = pd.DataFrame(names,columns=['First_name'])

df.loc[df['First_name'] == 'Bill', 'name_match'] = 'Match'  
df.loc[df['First_name'] != 'Bill', 'name_match'] = 'Mismatch'  
 
print (df)

Example 2: pandas if python

import pandas as pd

names = {'First_name': ['Jon','Bill','Maria','Emma']}
df = pd.DataFrame(names,columns=['First_name'])

df['name_match'] = df['First_name'].apply(lambda x: 'Match' if x == 'Bill' else 'Mismatch')

print (df)