I have two pandas columns that are supposed to represent the interactions of 2 types of chemicals. I want the ‘user’ type of ID to be in one column and the id2 column to only have the ‘id/’ ID types. This basically means just switch the first two columns for any rows that are not in this order. But the thing is, for each row where I switch the order, I also need to flip the True/False value for the third column and I have about 7 other columns that I want to stay the same. I have a small example below.
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id1 id2 a_acting othercol1 othercol22
user/123 id/308 True 3
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id/328 user/219 True 5
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user/321 id/328 False 7
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user/328 id/321 False 9
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desired
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id1 id2 a_acting othercol1 othercol22
user/123 id/308 True 3
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user/219 id/328 False 5
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user/321 id/328 False 7
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user/328 id/321 False 9
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Answer
Use boolean indexing:
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# identify incorrect rows2
m = df['id1'].str.startswith('id')3
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# swap5
df.loc[m, 'id1'], df.loc[m, 'id2'] = df.loc[m, 'id2'], df.loc[m, 'id1']6
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# flip boolean8
df.loc[m, 'a_acting'] = ~df.loc[m, 'a_acting']9