python - Creating a new column depending on the equality of two other columns

Question

l want to compare the values of two columns where I create a new column bin_crnn. I want 1 if they are equals or 0 if not.

# coding: utf-8
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('file.csv',sep=',')

if df['crnn_pred']==df['manual_raw_value']:
    df['bin_crnn']=1
else:
    df['bin_crnn']=0

l got the following error

    if df['crnn_pred']==df['manual_raw_value']:
  File "/home/ahmed/anaconda3/envs/cv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/generic.py", line 917, in __nonzero__
    .format(self.__class__.__name__))
ValueError: The truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().

Answer 1

You need cast boolean mask to int with astype:

df['bin_crnn'] = (df['crnn_pred']==df['manual_raw_value']).astype(int)

Sample:

df = pd.DataFrame({'crnn_pred':[1,2,5], 'manual_raw_value':[1,8,5]})
print (df)
   crnn_pred  manual_raw_value
0          1                 1
1          2                 8
2          5                 5

print (df['crnn_pred']==df['manual_raw_value'])
0     True
1    False
2     True
dtype: bool

df['bin_crnn'] = (df['crnn_pred']==df['manual_raw_value']).astype(int)
print (df)
   crnn_pred  manual_raw_value  bin_crnn
0          1                 1         1
1          2                 8         0
2          5                 5         1

You get error, because if compare columns output is not scalar, but Series (array) of True and False values.

So need all or any for return scalar True or False.

I think better it explain this answer.