pandas loc on str lower for column comparison

[Sayth Renshaw]

On Friday, 6 September 2019 07:52:56 UTC+10, Piet van Oostrum  wrote:
> Piet van Oostrum <> writes:
> 
> > That would select ROWS 0,1,5,6,7, not columns.
> > To select columns 0,1,5,6,7, use two-dimensional indexes
> >
> > df1 = df.iloc[:, [0,1,5,6,7]]
> >
> > : selects all rows.
> 
> And that also solves your original problem.
> 
> This statement:
> 
> df1['Difference'] = df1.loc['Current Team'].str.lower().str.strip() == df1.loc['New Team'].str.lower().str.strip()
> 
> should not use .loc, because then you are selecting rows, not columns, but:
> 
> df1['Difference'] = df1['Current Team'].str.lower().str.strip() == df1['New Team'].str.lower().str.strip()
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> Piet van Oostrum <>
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That actually creates another error.

A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame.
Try using .loc[row_indexer,col_indexer] = value instead

See the caveats in the documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy

So tried this
df['c'] = df.apply(lambda df1: df1['Current Team'].str.lower().str.strip() == df1['New Team'].str.lower().str.strip(), axis=1)

Based on this SO answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/46570641

Thoughts?

Sayth