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Then, how do you combine data frames?
Specify the join type in the “how” command. A left join, or left merge, keeps every row from the left dataframe. Result from left-join or left-merge of two dataframes in Pandas. Rows in the left dataframe that have no corresponding join value in the right dataframe are left with NaN values.
Similarly, you may ask, what is the difference between merge and join in pandas?
DataFrame. join() methods as a convenient way to access the capabilities of pandas. join(df2) always joins via the index of df2 , but df1. merge(df2) can join to one or more columns of df2 (default) or to the index of df2 (with right_index=True ).
To detect NaN values pandas uses either . isna() or . isnull() . The NaN values are inherited from the fact that pandas is built on top of numpy, while the two functions' names originate from R's DataFrames, whose structure and functionality pandas tried to mimic.