FAQ: Modifying DataFrames - Review

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Data Science

Data Analysis with Pandas

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#2

why cant i populate the ‘shoe_source’ column with this function?
orders[‘shoe_source’]= orders.shoe_material.apply(lambda x: ‘animal’ if orders.shoe_material == ‘leather’ else ‘vegan’)

nothing happens!

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you are using ‘lambda x’ but not using x in the lambda function. the lambda is being applied to each value in orders.shoe_material already (orders.shoe_material.apply) so you need to reference x in the lambda instead of the whole orders.shoe_material series.
try

lambda x: ‘animal’ if x == ‘leather’ else ‘vegan’