apply function of R in python

I have a code in R that works. But I want to re-do it in python. I use R to use apply function in order to calculate minor allele frequency. Can someone tell me how such a code would look in python? I am using pandas to read the data in python.

##R-code
###Reading file
var_freq <- read_delim("./cichlid_subset.frq", delim = "t",
                       col_names = c("chr", "pos", "nalleles", "nchr", "a1", "a2"), skip = 1)

# find minor allele frequency
var_freq$maf <- var_freq %>% select(a1, a2) %>% apply(1, function(z) min(z))

I have read the file using pandas but I am struggling with the second part.

###Python code
###Reading file
var_freq = pd.read_csv("./cichlid_subset.frq",sep='t',header=None)
column_indices = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
new_names = ["chr", "pos", "nalleles", "nchr", "a1", "a2"]
old_names = df_snv_gnomad.columns[column_indices]

###Finding minor allele frequency

Insights will be appreciated.

Answer

Use:

# Read file
colnames = ["chr", "pos", "nalleles", "nchr", "a1", "a2"]
var_freq = pd.read_csv('./cichlid_subset.frq', sep='t', header=None, skiprows=1, names=colnames)

# Get MAF
var_freq['maf'] = var_freq[['a1','a2']].min(axis=1)