python - Faster alternative to iterrows

Question

I know that this topic has been addressed a thousand times. But I can't figure out a solution.

I'm trying to count how often a list (each row of df1.list1) occurs in a column of list (df2.list2). All lists consist of unique values only. List1 includes about 300.000 rows and list2 30.000 rows.

I've got a working code but its terribly slow (because I'm using iterrows). I also tried itertuples() but it gave me an error ("too many values to unpack (expected 2)"). I found a similar question online: Pandas counting occurrence of list contained in column of lists. In the mentioned case the person considers only the occurrence of one list within a column of lists. However, I can't work things out so each row in df1.list1 is compared to df2.list2.

Thats how my lists look like (simplified):

df1.list1

0   ["a", "b"]
1   ["a", "c"]
2   ["a", "d"]
3   ["b", "c"]
4   ["b", "d"]
5   ["c", "d"]


df2.list2

0    ["a", "b" ,"c", "d"]
1    ["a", "b"] 
2    ["b", "c"]
3    ["c", "d"]
4    ["b", "c"]

What I would like to come up with:

df1

    list1         occurence   
0   ["a", "b"]    2
1   ["a", "c"]    1
2   ["a", "d"]    1
3   ["b", "c"]    3
4   ["b", "d"]    1
5   ["c", "d"]    2

Thats what I've got so far:

for index, row in df_combinations.iterrows():
    df1.at[index, "occurrence"] = df2["list2"].apply(lambda x: all(i in x for i in row['list1'])).sum()

Any suggestions how I can speed things up? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This should be much faster:

df = pd.DataFrame({'list1': [["a","b"],
                             ["a","c"],
                             ["a","d"],
                             ["b","c"],
                             ["b","d"],
                             ["c","d"]]*100})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({'list2': [["a","b","c","d"],
                              ["a","b"], 
                              ["b","c"],
                              ["c","d"],
                              ["b","c"]]*100})

list2 = df2['list2'].map(set).tolist()

df['occurance'] = df['list1'].apply(set).apply(lambda x: len([i for i in list2 if x.issubset(i)]))

Using your approach:

%timeit for index, row in df.iterrows(): df.at[index, "occurrence"] = df2["list2"].apply(lambda x: all(i in x for i in row['list1'])).sum()

1 loop, best of 3: 3.98 s per loop Using mine:

%timeit list2 = df2['list2'].map(set).tolist();df['occurance'] = df['list1'].apply(set).apply(lambda x: len([i for i in list2 if x.issubset(i)]))

10 loops, best of 3: 29.7 ms per loop

Notice that I've increased the size of list by a factor of 100.

EDIT

This one seems even faster:

list2 = df2['list2'].sort_values().tolist()
df['occurance'] = df['list1'].apply(lambda x: len(list(next(iter(())) if not all(i in list2 for i in x) else i for i in x)))

And timing:

%timeit list2 =  df2['list2'].sort_values().tolist();df['occurance'] = df['list1'].apply(lambda x: len(list(next(iter(())) if not all(i in list2 for i in x) else i for i in x)))

100 loops, best of 3: 14.8 ms per loop