Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.
Pandas dataframe.eval() function is used to evaluate an expression in the context of the calling dataframe instance. The expression is evaluated over the columns of the dataframe.
Syntax: DataFrame.eval(expr, inplace=False, **kwargs)
Parameters:
expr : The expression string to evaluate.
inplace : If the expression contains an assignment, whether to perform the operation inplace and mutate the existing DataFrame. Otherwise, a new
DataFrame is returned.
kwargs : See the documentation for eval() for complete details on the keyword arguments accepted by query().Returns: ret : ndarray, scalar, or pandas object
Example #1: Use eval() function to evaluate the sum of all column element in the dataframe and insert the resulting column in the dataframe.
# importing pandas as pd import pandas as pd # Creating the dataframe df=pd.DataFrame({"A":[1,5,7,8], "B":[5,8,4,3], "C":[10,4,9,3]}) # Print the first dataframe df |
Let’s evaluate the sum over all the columns and add the resultant column to the dataframe
# To evaluate the sum over all the columns df.eval('D = A + B+C', inplace = True) # Print the modified dataframe df |
Output :
Example #2: Use eval() function to evaluate the sum of any two column element in the dataframe and insert the resulting column in the dataframe. The dataframe has NaN value.
Note : Any expression can not be evaluated over NaN values. So the corresponding cells will be NaN too.
# importing pandas as pd import pandas as pd # Creating the dataframe df=pd.DataFrame({"A":[1,2,3], "B":[4,5,None], "C":[7,8,9]}) # Print the dataframe df |
Let’s evaluate the sum of column “B” and “C”.
# To evaluate the sum of two columns in the dataframe df.eval('D = B + C', inplace = True) # Print the modified dataframe df |
Output :
Notice, the resulting column ‘D’ has NaN value in the last row as the corresponding cell used in evaluation was a NaN cell.
