pandas.Series.align#
- Series.align(other, join='outer', axis=None, level=None, copy=None, fill_value=None, method=_NoDefault.no_default, limit=_NoDefault.no_default, fill_axis=_NoDefault.no_default, broadcast_axis=_NoDefault.no_default)[source]#
Align two objects on their axes with the specified join method.
Join method is specified for each axis Index.
- Parameters:
- otherDataFrame or Series
- join{‘outer’, ‘inner’, ‘left’, ‘right’}, default ‘outer’
Type of alignment to be performed.
left: use only keys from left frame, preserve key order.
right: use only keys from right frame, preserve key order.
outer: use union of keys from both frames, sort keys lexicographically.
inner: use intersection of keys from both frames, preserve the order of the left keys.
- axisallowed axis of the other object, default None
Align on index (0), columns (1), or both (None).
- levelint or level name, default None
Broadcast across a level, matching Index values on the passed MultiIndex level.
- copybool, default True
Always returns new objects. If copy=False and no reindexing is required then original objects are returned.
Note
The copy keyword will change behavior in pandas 3.0. Copy-on-Write will be enabled by default, which means that all methods with a copy keyword will use a lazy copy mechanism to defer the copy and ignore the copy keyword. The copy keyword will be removed in a future version of pandas.
You can already get the future behavior and improvements through enabling copy on write
pd.options.mode.copy_on_write = True- fill_valuescalar, default np.nan
Value to use for missing values. Defaults to NaN, but can be any “compatible” value.
- method{‘backfill’, ‘bfill’, ‘pad’, ‘ffill’, None}, default None
Method to use for filling holes in reindexed Series:
pad / ffill: propagate last valid observation forward to next valid.
backfill / bfill: use NEXT valid observation to fill gap.
Deprecated since version 2.1.
- limitint, default None
If method is specified, this is the maximum number of consecutive NaN values to forward/backward fill. In other words, if there is a gap with more than this number of consecutive NaNs, it will only be partially filled. If method is not specified, this is the maximum number of entries along the entire axis where NaNs will be filled. Must be greater than 0 if not None.
Deprecated since version 2.1.
- fill_axis{0 or ‘index’} for Series, {0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’} for DataFrame, default 0
Filling axis, method and limit.
Deprecated since version 2.1.
- broadcast_axis{0 or ‘index’} for Series, {0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’} for DataFrame, default None
Broadcast values along this axis, if aligning two objects of different dimensions.
Deprecated since version 2.1.
- Returns:
- tuple of (Series/DataFrame, type of other)
Aligned objects.
Examples
>>> df = pd.DataFrame( ... [[1, 2, 3, 4], [6, 7, 8, 9]], columns=["D", "B", "E", "A"], index=[1, 2] ... ) >>> other = pd.DataFrame( ... [[10, 20, 30, 40], [60, 70, 80, 90], [600, 700, 800, 900]], ... columns=["A", "B", "C", "D"], ... index=[2, 3, 4], ... ) >>> df D B E A 1 1 2 3 4 2 6 7 8 9 >>> other A B C D 2 10 20 30 40 3 60 70 80 90 4 600 700 800 900
Align on columns:
>>> left, right = df.align(other, join="outer", axis=1) >>> left A B C D E 1 4 2 NaN 1 3 2 9 7 NaN 6 8 >>> right A B C D E 2 10 20 30 40 NaN 3 60 70 80 90 NaN 4 600 700 800 900 NaN
We can also align on the index:
>>> left, right = df.align(other, join="outer", axis=0) >>> left D B E A 1 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 2 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 3 NaN NaN NaN NaN 4 NaN NaN NaN NaN >>> right A B C D 1 NaN NaN NaN NaN 2 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 3 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 4 600.0 700.0 800.0 900.0
Finally, the default axis=None will align on both index and columns:
>>> left, right = df.align(other, join="outer", axis=None) >>> left A B C D E 1 4.0 2.0 NaN 1.0 3.0 2 9.0 7.0 NaN 6.0 8.0 3 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 4 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN >>> right A B C D E 1 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 2 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 NaN 3 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 NaN 4 600.0 700.0 800.0 900.0 NaN