Check If Specific Column of Two DataFrames Are Equal in Python Pandas

To check if any specific column of two DataFrames are equal or not, use the equals() method. Let us first create DataFrame1 with two columns −

dataFrame1 = pd.DataFrame(
   {
      "Car": ['BMW', 'Lexus', 'Audi', 'Mustang', 'Bentley', 'Jaguar'],
      "Units": [100, 150, 110, 80, 110, 90]
   }
)

Create DataFrame2 with two columns −

dataFrame2 = pd.DataFrame(
   {
      "Car": ['BMW', 'Lexus', 'Audi', 'Mustang', 'Mercedes', 'Jaguar'],
      "Units": [100, 150, 110, 80, 110, 90]
   }
)

Check for the equality of a specific column Units −

dataFrame2['Units'].equals(dataFrame1['Units'])

Example

Following is the code −

import pandas as pd

# Create DataFrame1
dataFrame1 = pd.DataFrame(
   {
      "Car": ['BMW', 'Lexus', 'Audi', 'Mustang', 'Bentley', 'Jaguar'],
      "Units": [100, 150, 110, 80, 110, 90] }
)

print"DataFrame1 ...\n",dataFrame1

# Create DataFrame2
dataFrame2 = pd.DataFrame(
   {
      "Car": ['BMW', 'Lexus', 'Audi', 'Mustang', 'Bentley', 'Jaguar'],
      "Units": [100, 150, 110, 80, 110, 90]
   }
)

print"\nDataFrame2 ...\n",dataFrame2

# check for equality
print"\nAre both the DataFrame objects equal? ",dataFrame1.equals(dataFrame2)

# check for specific column Units equality
print"\nAre both the DataFrames have similar Units column? ",dataFrame2['Units'].equals(dataFrame1['Units']
)

Output

This will produce the following output −

DataFrame1 ...
       Car   Units
0      BMW    100
1    Lexus    150
2     Audi    110
3  Mustang     80
4  Bentley    110
5   Jaguar     90

DataFrame2 ...
       Car   Units
0      BMW    100
1    Lexus    150
2     Audi    110
3  Mustang     80
4  Bentley    110
5   Jaguar     90

Are both the DataFrame objects equal? True

Are both the DataFrames have similar Units column? True