Pandas mathematical operation, conditional on column value

Question

I need to make a mathematical operation which is conditional on the value in a second column. Here is the setup.

Given a simple dataframe (df):

Answer 1

It was throwing ValueError since you were not using the loc correctly. Here is the solution using loc:

df.loc[:,'math'] = 10 + df.loc[df['col1'] == "B", 'col3']

Output:

 col1 col2 col3 math
0    A   2   0    NaN
1    A   1   1    NaN
2    B   9   9    19.0
3    NaN 8   4    NaN
4    D   7   2    NaN
5    C   4   3    NaN