pandas Duplicated data Select duplicated
Example
If need set value 0 to column B, where in column A are duplicated data first create mask by Series.duplicated and then use DataFrame.ix or Series.mask:
In [224]: df = pd.DataFrame({'A':[1,2,3,3,2],
...: 'B':[1,7,3,0,8]})
In [225]: mask = df.A.duplicated(keep=False)
In [226]: mask
Out[226]:
0 False
1 True
2 True
3 True
4 True
Name: A, dtype: bool
In [227]: df.ix[mask, 'B'] = 0
In [228]: df['C'] = df.A.mask(mask, 0)
In [229]: df
Out[229]:
A B C
0 1 1 1
1 2 0 0
2 3 0 0
3 3 0 0
4 2 0 0
If need invert mask use ~:
In [230]: df['C'] = df.A.mask(~mask, 0)
In [231]: df
Out[231]:
A B C
0 1 1 0
1 2 0 2
2 3 0 3
3 3 0 3
4 2 0 2
