Python | Pandas Series.ge()
Last Updated :
03 Jan, 2020
Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric Python packages.
Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.
Pandas
series.ge()
is used to compare every element of Caller series with passed series. It returns True for every element which is Greater than or Equal to the element in passed series.
Note: The results are returned on the basis of comparison caller
series >= other series.
Syntax: Series.ge(other, level=None, fill_value=None, axis=0)
Parameters:
other: other series to be compared with
level: int or name of level in case of multi level
fill_value: Value to be replaced instead of NaN
axis: 0 or ‘index’ to apply method by rows and 1 or ‘columns’ to apply by columns.
Return type: Boolean series
Example #1: NaN handling
In this example, two series are created using
pd.Series()
. The series contains some Null values and some equal values at same indices too. The series are compared using
.ge()
method and 7 is passed to fill_value parameter to replace NaN values by 7.
Python3 1==
# importing pandas module
import pandas as pd
# importing numpy module
import numpy as np
# creating series 1
series1 = pd.Series([70, 0, 2, 225, 1, 16, np.nan, 10, np.nan])
# creating series 2
series2 = pd.Series([27, np.nan, 2, 23, 5, 95, 4, 3, 19])
# NaN replacement
replace_nan = 7
# calling and returning to result variable
result = series1.ge(series2, fill_value = replace_nan)
# display
result
Output:
As shown in output, True was returned wherever value in caller series was Greater than or Equal value in passed series. Also it can be seen Null values were replaced by 7 and the comparison was made using that value.
Example #2: Calling on Series with str objects
In this example, two series are created using
pd.Series()
. The series contains some string values too. In case of strings, the comparison is made with their
ASCII values.
Python3 1==
# importing pandas module
import pandas as pd
# importing numpy module
import numpy as np
# creating series 1
series1 = pd.Series(['A', 0, 'c', 43, 9, 'e', np.nan, 'x', np.nan])
# creating series 2
series2 = pd.Series(['v', np.nan, 'c', 23, 5, 'D', 54, 'p', 19])
# NaN replacement
replace_nan = 14
# calling and returning to result variable
result = series1.ge(series2, fill_value = replace_nan)
# display
result
Output:
As it can be seen in output, in case of strings, the comparison was made using their ASCII values.