Python - function similar to VLOOKUP (Excel)

Question

i am trying to join two data frames but cannot get my head around the possibilities Python has to offer.

First dataframe:

ID MODEL   REQUESTS ORDERS
1  G         


        

Answer 1

Although not in this case, but there might be scenarios where df2 has more than two columns and you would just want to add one out of those to df1 based on a specific column as key. Here is a generic code that you may find useful.

df = pd.merge(df1, df2[['MODEL', 'MAKE']], on = 'MODEL', how = 'left')