Python: Assign value to a new column in Pandas as list using other columns

Question

I have below pandas dataframe:

Name1   Name2   Score1   Score2   
Bruce   Jacob    3        4
Aida    Stephan  0        1 

I want to create a new column in the dataframe "list_score" which is a list of score 1 and 2

Expected result:

Name1   Name2   Score1   Score2  list_score 
Bruce   Jacob    3        4        [3,4]
Aida    Stephan  0        1        [0,1]

Answer 1

Use zip with convert tuples to lists:

df['list_score'] = [list(x) for x in zip(df['Score1'], df['Score2'])]

Or:

df['list_score'] = list(map(list, zip(df['Score1'], df['Score2'])))
print (df)
   Name1    Name2  Score1  Score2 list_score
0  Bruce    Jacob       3       4     [3, 4]
1   Aida  Stephan       0       1     [0, 1]

Performance:

df = pd.concat([df] * 1000, ignore_index=True)

In [105]: %timeit df['list_score'] = [list(x) for x in zip(df['Score1'], df['Score2'])]
851 µs ± 36.1 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)

In [106]: %timeit df['list_score'] = list(map(list, zip(df['Score1'], df['Score2'])))
745 µs ± 35.1 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)

In [107]: %timeit df['list_score'] = df[['Score1', 'Score2']].apply(tuple, axis=1).apply(list)
35.5 ms ± 295 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

In [108]: %timeit df['list_score'] = df[['Score1', 'Score2']].values.tolist()
949 µs ± 105 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)

This was the setup used to generate the perfplot above:

def list_comp(df):
    df['list_score'] = [list(x) for x in zip(df['Score1'], df['Score2'])]
    return df

def map_list(df):
    df['list_score'] = list(map(list, zip(df['Score1'], df['Score2'])))
    return df

def apply(df):
    df['list_score'] = df[['Score1', 'Score2']].apply(tuple, axis=1).apply(list)
    return df

def values(df):
    df['list_score'] = df[['Score1', 'Score2']].values.tolist()
    return df


def make_df(n):
    df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(10, size=(n, 2)), columns=['Score1','Score2'])
    return df

perfplot.show(
    setup=make_df,
    kernels=[list_comp, map_list, apply, values],
    n_range=[2**k for k in range(2, 15)],
    logx=True,
    logy=True,
    equality_check=False,  # rows may appear in different order
    xlabel='len(df)')

Answer 2

One way is to use pd.DataFrame.apply to convert to tuple and then list . If tuple is sufficient, the second part may be omitted.

df['list_score'] = df[['Score1', 'Score2']].apply(tuple, axis=1).apply(list)

print(df)

   Name1    Name2  Score1  Score2 list_score
0  Bruce    Jacob       3       4     [3, 4]
1   Aida  Stephan       0       1     [0, 1]

Answer 3

df['list_score'] = df[['score1', 'score2']].values.tolist()