Consider the following dataframes
TableA = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4, 3),
pd.Index(list('abcd'), name='Key'),
['A', 'B', 'C']).reset_index()
TableB = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4, 3),
pd.Index(list('aecf'), name='Key'),
['A', 'B', 'C']).reset_index()
TableA
TableB
This is one way to do what you want
Method 1
# Identify what values are in TableB and not in TableA
key_diff = set(TableB.Key).difference(TableA.Key)
where_diff = TableB.Key.isin(key_diff)
# Slice TableB accordingly and append to TableA
TableA.append(TableB[where_diff], ignore_index=True)
Method 2
rows = []
for i, row in TableB.iterrows():
if row.Key not in TableA.Key.values:
rows.append(row)
pd.concat([TableA.T] + rows, axis=1).T
Timing
4 rows with 2 overlap
Method 1 is much quicker
10,000 rows 5,000 overlap
loops are bad
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