'merge' 2 dataframes on elements from list?

Question

I want to do the following merge (hard to describe in words): This are my Dataframes

df8=pd.DataFrame({\'names\':[[\'Hans\',\'Meier\'],[\'Debby\',\'Harry\',\'Pet         


        

Answer 1

Here is one way

df9['text']=df9['text'].str[0]

l=[df9.loc[x,'text'].tolist() for x in df8.names]
Out[505]: [['hi im hans', 'hi im meier'], ['hi im debby', 'hi im harry', 'hi im peter']]

df9['cont']=l