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Printing and counting unique values from an .xlsx file

I'm fairly new to Python and still learning the ropes, so I need help with a step by step program without using any functions. I understand how to count through an unknown column range and output the quantity. However, for this program, I'm trying to loop through a column, picking out unique numbers and counting its frequency.
So I have an excel file with random numbers down column A. I only put in 20 numbers but let's pretend the range is unknown. How would I go about extracting the unique numbers and inputting them into a separate column along with how many times they appeared in the list?
I'm not really sure how to go about this. :/
unique = 1
while xw.Range((unique,1)).value != None:
frequency = 0
if unique != unique: break
quantity += 1
"end"

I presume as you can't use functions this may be homework...so, high level:
You could first go through the column and then put all the values in a list?
Secondly take the first value from the list and go through the rest of the list - is it in there? If so then it is not unique. Now remove the value where you have found the duplicate from the list. Keep going if you find another remove that too.
Take the second value and so on?
You would just need list comprehension, some loops and perhaps .pop()

Using pandas library would be the easiest way to do. I created a sample excel sheet having only one column called "Random_num"
import pandas
data = pandas.read_excel("sample.xlsx", sheet_name = "Sheet1")
print(data.head()) # This would give you a sneak peek of your data
print(data['Random_num'].value_counts()) # This would solve the problem you asked for
# Make sure to pass your column name within the quotation marks
#eg: data['your_column'].value_counts()
Thanks

Python loop through two dataframes and find similar column

I am currently working on a project where my goal is to get the game scores for each NCAA mens basketball game. In order to do this, I need to use the python package sportsreference. I need to use two dataframes, one called df which has the game date and one called box_index (shown below) which has the unique link of each game. I need to get the date column replaced by the unique link of each game. These unique links start with the date (formatted exactly as in the date column of df), which makes it easier to do this with regex or the .contains(). I keep getting a Keyerror: 0 error. Can someone help me figure out what is wrong with my logic below?
from sportsreference.ncaab.schedule import Schedule
def get_team_schedule(name):
combined =Schedule(name).dataframe
box_index = combined["boxscore_index"]
box = box_index.to_frame()
#print(box)
for i in range(len(df)):
for j in range(len(box)):
if box.loc[i,"boxscore_index"].contains(df.loc[i, "date"]):
df.loc[i,"date"] = box.loc[i,"boxscore_index"]
get_team_schedule("Virginia")

It seems like "box" and "df" are pandas data frame, and since you are iterating through all the rows, it may be more efficient to use iterrows (instead of searching by index with ".loc")
for i, row_df in df.iterrows():
for j, row_box in box.iterrows():
if row_box["boxscore_index"].contains(row_df["date"]):
df.at[i, 'date'] = row_box["boxscore_index"]
the ".at" function will overwrite the value at a given cell

Just fyi, iterrows is more efficient than .loc., however itertuples is about 10x faster, and zip about 100xs.
The Keyerror: 0 error is saying you can't get that row at index 0, because there is no index value of 0 using box.loc[i,"boxscore_index"] (the index values are the dates, for example '2020-12-22-14-virginia'). You could use .iloc. though, like box.iloc[i]["boxscore_index"]. You'd have to convert all the .loc to that.
Like the other post said though, I wouldn't go that path. I actually wouldn't even use iterrows here. I would put the box_index into a list, then iterarte through that. Then use pandas to filter your df dataframe. I'm sort of making some assumptions of what df looks like, so if this doesn't work, or not what you looking to do, please share some sample rows of df:
from sportsreference.ncaab.schedule import Schedule
def get_team_schedule(name):
combined = Schedule(name).dataframe
box_index_list = list(combined["boxscore_index"])
for box_index in box_index_list:
temp_game_data = df[df["date"] == boxscore_index]
print(box_index)
print(temp_game_data,'\n')
get_team_schedule("Virginia")

Unable to loop through Dataframe rows: Length of values does not match length of index

I'm not entirely sure why I am getting this error as I have a very simple dataframe that I am currently working with. Here is a sample of the dataframe (the date column is the index):
date
News
2021-02-01
This is a news headline. This is a news summary.
2021-02-02
This is another headline. This is another summary
So basically, all I am trying to do is loop through the dataframe one row at a time and pull the News item, use the Sentiment Intensity Analyzer on it and store the compound value into a separate list (which I am appending to an empty list). However, when I run the loop, it gives me this error:
Length of values (5085) does not match the length of index (2675)
Here is a sample of the code that I have so far:
sia = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
news_sentiment_list = []
for i in range (0, (df_news.shape[0]-1)):
n = df_news.iloc[i][0]
news_sentiment_list.append(sia.polarity_scores(n)['compound'])
df['News Sentiment'] = news_sentiment_list
I've tried the loop statement a number of different ways using the FOR loop, and I always return that error. I am honestly lost at this point =(
edit: The shape of the dataframe is: (5087, 1)

The target dataframe is df whereas you loop on df_news, the indexes are probably not the same. You might need to merge the dataframes before doing so.
Moreover, there is an easier approach to your problem that would avoid having to loop on it. Assuming your dataframe df_news holds the column News (as shown on your table), you can add a column to this dataframe simply by doing:
sia = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
df_news['News Sentiment'] = df_news['News'].apply(lambda x: sia.polarity_scores(x)['compound'])
A general rule when using pandas is to avoid as much as possible using for-loops, except when you have a very specific edge case panda's built-in methods will be sufficient.

Given an index label, how would you extract the index position in a dataframe?

New to python, trying to take a csv and get the country that has the max number of gold medals. I can get the country name as a type Index but need a string value for the submission.
csv has rows of countries as the indices, and columns with stats.
ind = DataFrame.index.get_loc(index_result) doesn't work because it doesn't have a valid key.
If I run dataframe.loc[ind], it returns the entire row.
df = read_csv('csv', index_col=0,skiprows=1)
for loop to get the most gold medals:
mostMedals= iterator
getIndex = (df[df['medals' == mostMedals]).index #check the column medals
#for mostMedals cell to see what country won that many
ind = dataframe.index.get_loc[getIndex] #doesn't like the key
What I'm going for is to get the index position of the getIndex so I can run something like dataframe.index[getIndex] and that will give me the string I need but I can't figure out how to get that index position integer.

Expanding on my comments above, this is how I would approach it. There may be better/other ways, pandas is a pretty enormous library with lots of neat functionality that I don't know yet, either!
df = read_csv('csv', index_col=0,skiprows=1)
max_medals = df['medals'].max()
countries = list(df.where(df['medals'] == max_medals).dropna().index)
Unpacking that expression, the where method returns a frame based on df that matches the condition expressed. dropna() tells us to remove any rows that are NaN values, and index returns the remaining row index. Finally, I wrap that all in list, which isn't strictly necessary but I prefer working with simple built-in types unless I have a greater need.

Store grouped data with variable

I have a general question about pandas. I have a DataFrame named d with a lot of info on parks. All unique park names are stored in an array called parks. There's another column with a location ID and I want to iterate through the parks array and print unique location ID counts associated with that park name.
d[d['Park']=='AKRO']
len(d['Location'].unique())
gives me a count of 24824.
x = d[d['Park']=='AKRO']
print(len(x['Location'].unique()))
gives me a location count of 1. Why? I thought these are the same except I am storing the info in a variable.
So naturally the loop I was trying doesn't work. Does anyone have any tips?
counts=[]
for p in parks:
x= d[d['Park']==p]
y= (len(x['Location'].unique()))
counts.append([p,y])

You can try something like,
d.groupby('Park')['Location'].nunique()

When you subset the first time, you're not assigning d[d['Park'] == 'ARKO'] to anything. So you haven't actually changed the data. You only viewed that section of the data.
When you assign x = d[d['Park']=='AKRO'], x is now only that section that you viewed with the first command. That's why you get the difference you are observing.
Your for loop is actually only looping through the columns of d. If you wish to loop through the rows, you can use the following.
for idx, row in d.iterrows():
print(idx, row)
However, if you want to count the number of locations with a for loop, you have to loop through each park. Something like the following.
for park in d['Park'].unique():
print(park, d.loc[d['Park'] == park, 'Location'].size())
You can accomplish your goal without iteration, however. This sort of approach is preferred.
d.groupby('Park')['Location'].nunique()

Be careful with Panda's DataFrame functions for which produce an inline change or not. For example, d[d['Park']=='AKRO'] doesn't actually change the DataFrame d. However, x = d[d['Park']=='AKRO'] sets the output of d[d['Park']=='AKRO'] to x so x now only has 1 Location.
Have you manually checked how many unique Location IDs exist for 'AKRO'? The for loop looks correct outside of the extra brackets around y= len(x['Location'].unique())