I have a pandas'DataFrame, it looks like this:
# Output
# A B C D
# 0 3.0 6.0 7.0 4.0
# 1 42.0 44.0 1.0 3.0
# 2 4.0 2.0 3.0 62.0
# 3 90.0 83.0 53.0 23.0
# 4 22.0 23.0 24.0 NaN
# 5 5.0 2.0 5.0 34.0
# 6 NaN NaN NaN NaN
# 7 NaN NaN NaN NaN
# 8 2.0 12.0 65.0 1.0
# 9 5.0 7.0 32.0 7.0
# 10 2.0 13.0 6.0 12.0
# 11 NaN NaN NaN NaN
# 12 23.0 NaN 23.0 34.0
# 13 61.0 NaN 63.0 3.0
# 14 32.0 43.0 12.0 76.0
# 15 24.0 2.0 34.0 2.0
What I would like to do is fill the NaN's with the earliest preceding row's B value. Apart from Column D, on this row, I would like NaN's replaced with zeros.
I've looked into ffill, fillna.. neither seem to be able to do the job.
My solution so far:
def fix_abc(row, column, df):
# If the row/column value is null/nan
if pd.isnull( row[column] ):
# Get the value of row[column] from the row before
prior = row.name
value = df[prior-1:prior]['B'].values[0]
# If that values empty, go to the row before that
while pd.isnull( value ) and prior >= 1 :
prior = prior - 1
value = df[prior-1:prior]['B'].values[0]
else:
value = row[column]
return value
df['A'] = df.apply( lambda x: fix_abc(x,'A',df), axis=1 )
df['B'] = df.apply( lambda x: fix_abc(x,'B',df), axis=1 )
df['C'] = df.apply( lambda x: fix_abc(x,'C',df), axis=1 )
def fix_d(x):
if pd.isnull(x['D']):
return 0
return x
df['D'] = df.apply( lambda x: fix_d(x), axis=1 )
It feels like this quite inefficient, and slow. So I'm wondering if there is a quicker, more efficient way to do this.
Example output;
# A B C D
# 0 3.0 6.0 7.0 3.0
# 1 42.0 44.0 1.0 42.0
# 2 4.0 2.0 3.0 4.0
# 3 90.0 83.0 53.0 90.0
# 4 22.0 23.0 24.0 0.0
# 5 5.0 2.0 5.0 5.0
# 6 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.0
# 7 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.0
# 8 2.0 12.0 65.0 2.0
# 9 5.0 7.0 32.0 5.0
# 10 2.0 13.0 6.0 2.0
# 11 13.0 13.0 13.0 0.0
# 12 23.0 13.0 23.0 23.0
# 13 61.0 13.0 63.0 61.0
# 14 32.0 43.0 12.0 32.0
# 15 24.0 2.0 34.0 24.0
I have dumped the code including the data for the dataframe into a python fiddle available (here)