pandas three-way joining multiple dataframes on columns

Question

I have 3 CSV files. Each has the first column as the (string) names of people, while all the other columns in each dataframe are attributes of that person.

How can

Answer 1

I tweaked the accepted answer to perform the operation for multiple dataframes on different suffix parameters using reduce and i guess it can be extended to different on parameters as well.

from functools import reduce 

dfs_with_suffixes = [(df2,suffix2), (df3,suffix3), 
                     (df4,suffix4)]

merge_one = lambda x,y,sfx:pd.merge(x,y,on=['col1','col2'..], suffixes=sfx)

merged = reduce(lambda left,right:merge_one(left,*right), dfs_with_suffixes, df1)