I have the following DataFrame:
In [1]:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [1, 2, 3],
'b': [2, 3, 4],
'c': ['dd', 'ee', 'ff'],
'd': [5, 9, 1]})
df
Out [1]:
a b c d
0 1 2 dd 5
1 2 3 ee 9
2 3 4 ff 1
I would like to add a column 'e' which is the sum of columns 'a', 'b' and 'd'.
Going across forums, I thought something like this would work:
df['e'] = df[['a', 'b', 'd']].map(sum)
But it didn’t.
I would like to know the appropriate operation with the list of columns ['a', 'b', 'd'] and df as inputs.
Answers:
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Method 1
You can just sum and set param axis=1 to sum the rows, this will ignore none numeric columns:
In [91]:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [1,2,3], 'b': [2,3,4], 'c':['dd','ee','ff'], 'd':[5,9,1]})
df['e'] = df.sum(axis=1)
df
Out[91]:
a b c d e
0 1 2 dd 5 8
1 2 3 ee 9 14
2 3 4 ff 1 8
If you want to just sum specific columns then you can create a list of the columns and remove the ones you are not interested in:
In [98]:
col_list= list(df)
col_list.remove('d')
col_list
Out[98]:
['a', 'b', 'c']
In [99]:
df['e'] = df[col_list].sum(axis=1)
df
Out[99]:
a b c d e
0 1 2 dd 5 3
1 2 3 ee 9 5
2 3 4 ff 1 7
Method 2
If you have just a few columns to sum, you can write:
df['e'] = df['a'] + df['b'] + df['d']
This creates new column e with the values:
a b c d e 0 1 2 dd 5 8 1 2 3 ee 9 14 2 3 4 ff 1 8
For longer lists of columns, EdChum’s answer is preferred.
Method 3
Create a list of column names you want to add up.
df['total']=df.loc[:,list_name].sum(axis=1)
If you want the sum for certain rows, specify the rows using ‘:’
Method 4
This is a simpler way using iloc to select which columns to sum:
df['f']=df.iloc[:,0:2].sum(axis=1) df['g']=df.iloc[:,[0,1]].sum(axis=1) df['h']=df.iloc[:,[0,3]].sum(axis=1)
Produces:
a b c d e f g h 0 1 2 dd 5 8 3 3 6 1 2 3 ee 9 14 5 5 11 2 3 4 ff 1 8 7 7 4
I can’t find a way to combine a range and specific columns that works e.g. something like:
df['i']=df.iloc[:,[[0:2],3]].sum(axis=1) df['i']=df.iloc[:,[0:2,3]].sum(axis=1)
Method 5
You can simply pass your dataframe into the following function:
def sum_frame_by_column(frame, new_col_name, list_of_cols_to_sum):
frame[new_col_name] = frame[list_of_cols_to_sum].astype(float).sum(axis=1)
return(frame)
Example:
I have a dataframe (awards_frame) as follows:
…and I want to create a new column that shows the sum of awards for each row:
Usage:
I simply pass my awards_frame into the function, also specifying the name of the new column, and a list of column names that are to be summed:
sum_frame_by_column(awards_frame, 'award_sum', ['award_1','award_2','award_3'])
Result:
Method 6
Following syntax helped me when I have columns in sequence
awards_frame.values[:,1:4].sum(axis =1)
Method 7
The shortest and simplest way here is to use
df.eval('e = a + b + d')
Method 8
You can use the function aggragate or agg:
df[['a','b','d']].agg('sum', axis=1)
The advantage of agg is that you can use multiple aggregation functions:
df[['a','b','d']].agg(['sum', 'prod', 'min', 'max'], axis=1)
Output:
sum prod min max 0 8 10 1 5 1 14 54 2 9 2 8 12 1 4
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