Joining two pandas dataframes based on multiple conditions

Question

df_a and df_b are two dataframes that looks like following

df_a
A   B       C      D     E
x1  Apple   0.3   0.9    0.6
x1  Orange          


        

Answer 1

You need an inner merge, specifying both merge columns in each case:

res = df_a.merge(df_b, how='inner', left_on=['A', 'B'], right_on=['A', 'B_new'])

print(res)

    A       B    C    D    E   B_new    F
0  x1   Apple  0.3  0.9  0.6   Apple  0.3
1  x1  Orange  0.1  0.5  0.2  Orange  0.1
2  x2   Apple  0.2  0.2  0.1   Apple  0.2
3  x2  Orange  0.3  0.4  0.9  Orange  0.3
4  x2   Mango  0.1  0.2  0.3   Mango  0.1
5  x3  Orange  0.3  0.1  0.2  Orange  0.3

Answer 2

You can still achieve this with a left join which is very ideal.
See below:

final_df = pd.merge(df_a, df_b[['A', 'B_new','F']], how="left", left_on=['A', 'B'], right_on=['A', 'B_new']);