Multiply two pandas DataFrames based on column

Question

If I have two DataFrames how do I multiply them together by column to produce a DataFrame with the result. For example...

 df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(1         


        

Answer 1

[CW; just to take this off the unanswered questions list..]

I think you want df1 * df2. For example:

>>> df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(10, size=(5, 4)), columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(10, size=(5, 4)), columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
>>> df1
   A  B  C  D
0  0  6  5  7
1  8  6  4  0
2  6  2  4  3
3  8  8  7  6
4  8  7  9  0

[5 rows x 4 columns]
>>> df2
   A  B  C  D
0  0  0  3  0
1  8  5  6  5
2  7  4  9  7
3  8  4  4  1
4  2  5  6  4

[5 rows x 4 columns]
>>> df1 * df2
    A   B   C   D
0   0   0  15   0
1  64  30  24   0
2  42   8  36  21
3  64  32  28   6
4  16  35  54   0

[5 rows x 4 columns]