python - Pandas, groupby and count

Question

I have a dataframe say like this

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'user_id':['a','a','s','s','s'],
                    'session':[4,5,4,5,5],
                    'revenue':[-1,0,1,2,1]})

>>> df
   revenue  session user_id
0       -1        4       a
1        0        5       a
2        1        4       s
3        2        5       s
4        1        5       s

And each value of session and revenue represents a kind of type, and I want to count the number of each kind say the number of revenue=-1 and session=4 of user_id=a is 1.

And I found simple call count() function after groupby() can't output the result I want.

>>> df.groupby('user_id').count()
         revenue  session
user_id
a              2        2
s              3        3

How can I do that?

Answer 1

You seem to want to group by several columns at once:

df.groupby(['revenue','session','user_id'])['user_id'].count()

should give you what you want