How to check if a row of a Pandas dataframe has a cell with a specific value and if it does modify the last cell?

I have a dataframe df:

name	age_5_9	age_10_14	age_15_19
Alice	no bones broken	no bones broken	broke 1 bone
Bob	no bones broken	broke 2 bones	no bones broken
Charles	no bones broken	no bones broken	no bones broken

I would like to create a column broke_a_bone that is 1 when any of the rows has a value ‘broke 1 bone’ or ‘broke 2 bones’ in any of the columns age_5_9, age_10_14, or age_15_19; otherwise it should be 0.

It should look like this:

name	age_5_9	age_10_14	age_15_19	broke_a_bone
Alice	no bones broken	no bones broken	broke 1 bone	1
Bob	no bones broken	broke 2 bones	no bones broken	1
Charles	no bones broken	no bones broken	no bones broken	0

I tried to use .iterrows or .apply() but I just can’t seem to make it work.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

You can use filter to select the “age” columns, then check if any value per row is not (ne) “no bones broken”.

Convert the resulting boolean to integer for 0/1:

df['broke_a_bone'] = (df.filter(like='age_').ne('no bones broken')
                        .any(axis=1).astype(int)
                     )

output:

      name          age_5_9        age_10_14        age_15_19  broke_a_bone
0    Alice  no bones broken  no bones broken     broke 1 bone             1
1      Bob  no bones broken    broke 2 bones  no bones broken             1
2  Charles  no bones broken  no bones broken  no bones broken             0