與 SQL 的比較#

由於許多潛在的 pandas 使用者對 SQL 有些熟悉,因此此頁面旨在提供一些範例,說明如何使用 pandas 執行各種 SQL 作業。

如果您是 pandas 新手,您可能想先閱讀 10 分鐘學會 pandas,以熟悉此函式庫。

根據慣例,我們將 pandas 和 NumPy 匯入如下

In [1]: import pandas as pd

In [2]: import numpy as np

大多數範例將使用 pandas 測試中找到的 tips 資料集。我們會將資料讀入稱為 tips 的 DataFrame,並假設我們有一個名稱和結構相同的資料庫表格。

In [3]: url = (
   ...:     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pandas-dev"
   ...:     "/pandas/main/pandas/tests/io/data/csv/tips.csv"
   ...: )
   ...: 

In [4]: tips = pd.read_csv(url)

In [5]: tips
Out[5]: 
     total_bill   tip     sex smoker   day    time  size
0         16.99  1.01  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     2
1         10.34  1.66    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3
2         21.01  3.50    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3
3         23.68  3.31    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     2
4         24.59  3.61  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     4
..          ...   ...     ...    ...   ...     ...   ...
239       29.03  5.92    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     3
240       27.18  2.00  Female    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2
241       22.67  2.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2
242       17.82  1.75    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     2
243       18.78  3.00  Female     No  Thur  Dinner     2

[244 rows x 7 columns]

複製與原地作業#

大多數 pandas 作業會傳回 Series/DataFrame 的複製。若要讓變更「生效」,您需要指定給新變數

sorted_df = df.sort_values("col1")

或覆寫原始變數

df = df.sort_values("col1")

注意

您會看到 inplace=Truecopy=False 關鍵字引數可供一些方法使用

df.replace(5, inplace=True)

目前正積極討論要捨棄並移除大多數方法(例如 dropna)的 inplacecopy,但一小部分方法(包括 replace)例外。在寫入時複製的語境中,這兩個關鍵字將不再必要。提案可在此處找到 連結

SELECT#

在 SQL 中,選取是使用逗號分隔的清單來選取您要選取的欄位(或使用 * 來選取所有欄位)

SELECT total_bill, tip, smoker, time
FROM tips;

使用 pandas 時,欄位選取是透過將欄位名稱清單傳遞給您的 DataFrame 來完成

In [6]: tips[["total_bill", "tip", "smoker", "time"]]
Out[6]: 
     total_bill   tip smoker    time
0         16.99  1.01     No  Dinner
1         10.34  1.66     No  Dinner
2         21.01  3.50     No  Dinner
3         23.68  3.31     No  Dinner
4         24.59  3.61     No  Dinner
..          ...   ...    ...     ...
239       29.03  5.92     No  Dinner
240       27.18  2.00    Yes  Dinner
241       22.67  2.00    Yes  Dinner
242       17.82  1.75     No  Dinner
243       18.78  3.00     No  Dinner

[244 rows x 4 columns]

在沒有欄位名稱清單的情況下呼叫 DataFrame 會顯示所有欄位(類似於 SQL 的 *)。

在 SQL 中,您可以新增一個計算欄位

SELECT *, tip/total_bill as tip_rate
FROM tips;

使用 pandas 時,您可以使用 DataFrame 的 DataFrame.assign() 方法來附加一個新欄位

In [7]: tips.assign(tip_rate=tips["tip"] / tips["total_bill"])
Out[7]: 
     total_bill   tip     sex smoker   day    time  size  tip_rate
0         16.99  1.01  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     2  0.059447
1         10.34  1.66    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3  0.160542
2         21.01  3.50    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3  0.166587
3         23.68  3.31    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     2  0.139780
4         24.59  3.61  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     4  0.146808
..          ...   ...     ...    ...   ...     ...   ...       ...
239       29.03  5.92    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     3  0.203927
240       27.18  2.00  Female    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2  0.073584
241       22.67  2.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2  0.088222
242       17.82  1.75    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     2  0.098204
243       18.78  3.00  Female     No  Thur  Dinner     2  0.159744

[244 rows x 8 columns]

WHERE#

在 SQL 中,篩選是透過 WHERE 子句來完成。

SELECT *
FROM tips
WHERE time = 'Dinner';

DataFrame 可以透過多種方式來篩選;最直覺的方式是使用 布林索引

In [8]: tips[tips["total_bill"] > 10]
Out[8]: 
     total_bill   tip     sex smoker   day    time  size
0         16.99  1.01  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     2
1         10.34  1.66    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3
2         21.01  3.50    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3
3         23.68  3.31    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     2
4         24.59  3.61  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     4
..          ...   ...     ...    ...   ...     ...   ...
239       29.03  5.92    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     3
240       27.18  2.00  Female    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2
241       22.67  2.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2
242       17.82  1.75    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     2
243       18.78  3.00  Female     No  Thur  Dinner     2

[227 rows x 7 columns]

上述陳述只不過是將 SeriesTrue/False 物件傳遞給 DataFrame,傳回所有具有 True 的列。

In [9]: is_dinner = tips["time"] == "Dinner"

In [10]: is_dinner
Out[10]: 
0      True
1      True
2      True
3      True
4      True
       ... 
239    True
240    True
241    True
242    True
243    True
Name: time, Length: 244, dtype: bool

In [11]: is_dinner.value_counts()
Out[11]: 
time
True     176
False     68
Name: count, dtype: int64

In [12]: tips[is_dinner]
Out[12]: 
     total_bill   tip     sex smoker   day    time  size
0         16.99  1.01  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     2
1         10.34  1.66    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3
2         21.01  3.50    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     3
3         23.68  3.31    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     2
4         24.59  3.61  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     4
..          ...   ...     ...    ...   ...     ...   ...
239       29.03  5.92    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     3
240       27.18  2.00  Female    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2
241       22.67  2.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     2
242       17.82  1.75    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     2
243       18.78  3.00  Female     No  Thur  Dinner     2

[176 rows x 7 columns]

就像 SQL 的 ORAND,可以使用 | (OR) 和 & (AND) 將多個條件傳遞給 DataFrame。

晚餐用餐小費超過 5 美元

SELECT *
FROM tips
WHERE time = 'Dinner' AND tip > 5.00;
In [13]: tips[(tips["time"] == "Dinner") & (tips["tip"] > 5.00)]
Out[13]: 
     total_bill    tip     sex smoker  day    time  size
23        39.42   7.58    Male     No  Sat  Dinner     4
44        30.40   5.60    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     4
47        32.40   6.00    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     4
52        34.81   5.20  Female     No  Sun  Dinner     4
59        48.27   6.73    Male     No  Sat  Dinner     4
116       29.93   5.07    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     4
155       29.85   5.14  Female     No  Sun  Dinner     5
170       50.81  10.00    Male    Yes  Sat  Dinner     3
172        7.25   5.15    Male    Yes  Sun  Dinner     2
181       23.33   5.65    Male    Yes  Sun  Dinner     2
183       23.17   6.50    Male    Yes  Sun  Dinner     4
211       25.89   5.16    Male    Yes  Sat  Dinner     4
212       48.33   9.00    Male     No  Sat  Dinner     4
214       28.17   6.50  Female    Yes  Sat  Dinner     3
239       29.03   5.92    Male     No  Sat  Dinner     3

用餐人數至少 5 人的小費或帳單總額超過 45 美元

SELECT *
FROM tips
WHERE size >= 5 OR total_bill > 45;
In [14]: tips[(tips["size"] >= 5) | (tips["total_bill"] > 45)]
Out[14]: 
     total_bill    tip     sex smoker   day    time  size
59        48.27   6.73    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     4
125       29.80   4.20  Female     No  Thur   Lunch     6
141       34.30   6.70    Male     No  Thur   Lunch     6
142       41.19   5.00    Male     No  Thur   Lunch     5
143       27.05   5.00  Female     No  Thur   Lunch     6
155       29.85   5.14  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     5
156       48.17   5.00    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     6
170       50.81  10.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     3
182       45.35   3.50    Male    Yes   Sun  Dinner     3
185       20.69   5.00    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     5
187       30.46   2.00    Male    Yes   Sun  Dinner     5
212       48.33   9.00    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     4
216       28.15   3.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     5

使用 notna()isna() 方法進行 NULL 檢查。

In [15]: frame = pd.DataFrame(
   ....:     {"col1": ["A", "B", np.nan, "C", "D"], "col2": ["F", np.nan, "G", "H", "I"]}
   ....: )
   ....: 

In [16]: frame
Out[16]: 
  col1 col2
0    A    F
1    B  NaN
2  NaN    G
3    C    H
4    D    I

假設我們有一個與上面 DataFrame 結構相同的表格。我們可以使用以下查詢僅查看 col2 為 NULL 的記錄

SELECT *
FROM frame
WHERE col2 IS NULL;
In [17]: frame[frame["col2"].isna()]
Out[17]: 
  col1 col2
1    B  NaN

可以使用 notna() 取得 col1 不為 NULL 的項目。

SELECT *
FROM frame
WHERE col1 IS NOT NULL;
In [18]: frame[frame["col1"].notna()]
Out[18]: 
  col1 col2
0    A    F
1    B  NaN
3    C    H
4    D    I

GROUP BY#

在 pandas 中,SQL 的 GROUP BY 作業使用類似名稱的 groupby() 方法執行。 groupby() 通常是指我們想要將資料集分割成群組,套用一些函數(通常是聚合),然後將群組合併在一起的程序。

常見的 SQL 作業會取得資料集內每個群組的記錄數。例如,查詢取得由性別留下的提示數

SELECT sex, count(*)
FROM tips
GROUP BY sex;
/*
Female     87
Male      157
*/

Pandas 等效的程式碼為

In [19]: tips.groupby("sex").size()
Out[19]: 
sex
Female     87
Male      157
dtype: int64

請注意,在 Pandas 程式碼中,我們使用 DataFrameGroupBy.size(),而不是 DataFrameGroupBy.count()。這是因為 DataFrameGroupBy.count() 會將函式套用至每一欄,傳回每個欄位內 NOT NULL 的記錄數。

In [20]: tips.groupby("sex").count()
Out[20]: 
        total_bill  tip  smoker  day  time  size
sex                                             
Female          87   87      87   87    87    87
Male           157  157     157  157   157   157

或者,我們可以將 DataFrameGroupBy.count() 方法套用至個別欄位

In [21]: tips.groupby("sex")["total_bill"].count()
Out[21]: 
sex
Female     87
Male      157
Name: total_bill, dtype: int64

也可以同時套用多個函式。例如,假設我們想要查看小費金額如何根據星期幾而有所不同 - DataFrameGroupBy.agg() 允許您傳遞字典至已分組的 DataFrame,指出要套用至特定欄位的函式。

SELECT day, AVG(tip), COUNT(*)
FROM tips
GROUP BY day;
/*
Fri   2.734737   19
Sat   2.993103   87
Sun   3.255132   76
Thu  2.771452   62
*/
In [22]: tips.groupby("day").agg({"tip": "mean", "day": "size"})
Out[22]: 
           tip  day
day                
Fri   2.734737   19
Sat   2.993103   87
Sun   3.255132   76
Thur  2.771452   62

依據多個欄位分組的方法是傳遞欄位清單至 groupby() 方法。

SELECT smoker, day, COUNT(*), AVG(tip)
FROM tips
GROUP BY smoker, day;
/*
smoker day
No     Fri      4  2.812500
       Sat     45  3.102889
       Sun     57  3.167895
       Thu    45  2.673778
Yes    Fri     15  2.714000
       Sat     42  2.875476
       Sun     19  3.516842
       Thu    17  3.030000
*/
In [23]: tips.groupby(["smoker", "day"]).agg({"tip": ["size", "mean"]})
Out[23]: 
             tip          
            size      mean
smoker day                
No     Fri     4  2.812500
       Sat    45  3.102889
       Sun    57  3.167895
       Thur   45  2.673778
Yes    Fri    15  2.714000
       Sat    42  2.875476
       Sun    19  3.516842
       Thur   17  3.030000

JOIN#

JOIN可以使用 join()merge() 來執行。預設情況下,join() 會根據索引來合併資料框。每個方法都有參數,可讓您指定要執行的合併類型(LEFTRIGHTINNERFULL)或要合併的欄位(欄位名稱或索引)。

警告

如果兩個金鑰欄都包含金鑰為 null 值的列,這些列會彼此配對。這與一般的 SQL JOIN 行為不同,可能會導致意外的結果。

In [24]: df1 = pd.DataFrame({"key": ["A", "B", "C", "D"], "value": np.random.randn(4)})

In [25]: df2 = pd.DataFrame({"key": ["B", "D", "D", "E"], "value": np.random.randn(4)})

假設我們有兩個資料庫表格,其名稱和結構與我們的資料框相同。

現在我們來探討各種 JOIN 類型。

INNER JOIN#

SELECT *
FROM df1
INNER JOIN df2
  ON df1.key = df2.key;
# merge performs an INNER JOIN by default
In [26]: pd.merge(df1, df2, on="key")
Out[26]: 
  key   value_x   value_y
0   B -0.282863  1.212112
1   D -1.135632 -0.173215
2   D -1.135632  0.119209

merge() 也提供參數,供您將一個 DataFrame 的欄位與另一個 DataFrame 的索引合併時使用。

In [27]: indexed_df2 = df2.set_index("key")

In [28]: pd.merge(df1, indexed_df2, left_on="key", right_index=True)
Out[28]: 
  key   value_x   value_y
1   B -0.282863  1.212112
3   D -1.135632 -0.173215
3   D -1.135632  0.119209

左外合併#

顯示 df1 中的所有記錄。

SELECT *
FROM df1
LEFT OUTER JOIN df2
  ON df1.key = df2.key;
In [29]: pd.merge(df1, df2, on="key", how="left")
Out[29]: 
  key   value_x   value_y
0   A  0.469112       NaN
1   B -0.282863  1.212112
2   C -1.509059       NaN
3   D -1.135632 -0.173215
4   D -1.135632  0.119209

右合併#

顯示 df2 中的所有記錄。

SELECT *
FROM df1
RIGHT OUTER JOIN df2
  ON df1.key = df2.key;
In [30]: pd.merge(df1, df2, on="key", how="right")
Out[30]: 
  key   value_x   value_y
0   B -0.282863  1.212112
1   D -1.135632 -0.173215
2   D -1.135632  0.119209
3   E       NaN -1.044236

全合併#

pandas 也允許 FULL JOIN,它會顯示資料集的兩側,無論合併的欄位是否找到相符項。在撰寫本文時,FULL JOIN 並非所有 RDBMS (MySQL) 都支援。

顯示兩個表格中的所有記錄。

SELECT *
FROM df1
FULL OUTER JOIN df2
  ON df1.key = df2.key;
In [31]: pd.merge(df1, df2, on="key", how="outer")
Out[31]: 
  key   value_x   value_y
0   A  0.469112       NaN
1   B -0.282863  1.212112
2   C -1.509059       NaN
3   D -1.135632 -0.173215
4   D -1.135632  0.119209
5   E       NaN -1.044236

聯集#

UNION ALL 可以使用 concat() 執行。

In [32]: df1 = pd.DataFrame(
   ....:     {"city": ["Chicago", "San Francisco", "New York City"], "rank": range(1, 4)}
   ....: )
   ....: 

In [33]: df2 = pd.DataFrame(
   ....:     {"city": ["Chicago", "Boston", "Los Angeles"], "rank": [1, 4, 5]}
   ....: )
   ....: 
SELECT city, rank
FROM df1
UNION ALL
SELECT city, rank
FROM df2;
/*
         city  rank
      Chicago     1
San Francisco     2
New York City     3
      Chicago     1
       Boston     4
  Los Angeles     5
*/
In [34]: pd.concat([df1, df2])
Out[34]: 
            city  rank
0        Chicago     1
1  San Francisco     2
2  New York City     3
0        Chicago     1
1         Boston     4
2    Los Angeles     5

SQL 的 UNION 類似於 UNION ALL,但 UNION 會移除重複列。

SELECT city, rank
FROM df1
UNION
SELECT city, rank
FROM df2;
-- notice that there is only one Chicago record this time
/*
         city  rank
      Chicago     1
San Francisco     2
New York City     3
       Boston     4
  Los Angeles     5
*/

在 pandas 中,你可以使用 concat() 搭配 drop_duplicates()

In [35]: pd.concat([df1, df2]).drop_duplicates()
Out[35]: 
            city  rank
0        Chicago     1
1  San Francisco     2
2  New York City     3
1         Boston     4
2    Los Angeles     5

LIMIT#

SELECT * FROM tips
LIMIT 10;
In [36]: tips.head(10)
Out[36]: 
   total_bill   tip     sex smoker  day    time  size
0       16.99  1.01  Female     No  Sun  Dinner     2
1       10.34  1.66    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     3
2       21.01  3.50    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     3
3       23.68  3.31    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     2
4       24.59  3.61  Female     No  Sun  Dinner     4
5       25.29  4.71    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     4
6        8.77  2.00    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     2
7       26.88  3.12    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     4
8       15.04  1.96    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     2
9       14.78  3.23    Male     No  Sun  Dinner     2

pandas 等效於某些 SQL 分析和聚合函數#

頂端 n 列與偏移#

-- MySQL
SELECT * FROM tips
ORDER BY tip DESC
LIMIT 10 OFFSET 5;
In [37]: tips.nlargest(10 + 5, columns="tip").tail(10)
Out[37]: 
     total_bill   tip     sex smoker   day    time  size
183       23.17  6.50    Male    Yes   Sun  Dinner     4
214       28.17  6.50  Female    Yes   Sat  Dinner     3
47        32.40  6.00    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     4
239       29.03  5.92    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     3
88        24.71  5.85    Male     No  Thur   Lunch     2
181       23.33  5.65    Male    Yes   Sun  Dinner     2
44        30.40  5.60    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     4
52        34.81  5.20  Female     No   Sun  Dinner     4
85        34.83  5.17  Female     No  Thur   Lunch     4
211       25.89  5.16    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     4

每組頂端 n 列#

-- Oracle's ROW_NUMBER() analytic function
SELECT * FROM (
  SELECT
    t.*,
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY day ORDER BY total_bill DESC) AS rn
  FROM tips t
)
WHERE rn < 3
ORDER BY day, rn;
In [38]: (
   ....:     tips.assign(
   ....:         rn=tips.sort_values(["total_bill"], ascending=False)
   ....:         .groupby(["day"])
   ....:         .cumcount()
   ....:         + 1
   ....:     )
   ....:     .query("rn < 3")
   ....:     .sort_values(["day", "rn"])
   ....: )
   ....: 
Out[38]: 
     total_bill    tip     sex smoker   day    time  size  rn
95        40.17   4.73    Male    Yes   Fri  Dinner     4   1
90        28.97   3.00    Male    Yes   Fri  Dinner     2   2
170       50.81  10.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     3   1
212       48.33   9.00    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     4   2
156       48.17   5.00    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     6   1
182       45.35   3.50    Male    Yes   Sun  Dinner     3   2
197       43.11   5.00  Female    Yes  Thur   Lunch     4   1
142       41.19   5.00    Male     No  Thur   Lunch     5   2

使用 rank(method='first') 函數執行相同的操作

In [39]: (
   ....:     tips.assign(
   ....:         rnk=tips.groupby(["day"])["total_bill"].rank(
   ....:             method="first", ascending=False
   ....:         )
   ....:     )
   ....:     .query("rnk < 3")
   ....:     .sort_values(["day", "rnk"])
   ....: )
   ....: 
Out[39]: 
     total_bill    tip     sex smoker   day    time  size  rnk
95        40.17   4.73    Male    Yes   Fri  Dinner     4  1.0
90        28.97   3.00    Male    Yes   Fri  Dinner     2  2.0
170       50.81  10.00    Male    Yes   Sat  Dinner     3  1.0
212       48.33   9.00    Male     No   Sat  Dinner     4  2.0
156       48.17   5.00    Male     No   Sun  Dinner     6  1.0
182       45.35   3.50    Male    Yes   Sun  Dinner     3  2.0
197       43.11   5.00  Female    Yes  Thur   Lunch     4  1.0
142       41.19   5.00    Male     No  Thur   Lunch     5  2.0
-- Oracle's RANK() analytic function
SELECT * FROM (
  SELECT
    t.*,
    RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY sex ORDER BY tip) AS rnk
  FROM tips t
  WHERE tip < 2
)
WHERE rnk < 3
ORDER BY sex, rnk;

讓我們找出 (tips < 2) 的每性別組 (rank < 3) 的小費。請注意,當使用 rank(method='min') 函數時,rnk_min 對於相同的 tip 保持相同(如同 Oracle 的 RANK() 函數)

In [40]: (
   ....:     tips[tips["tip"] < 2]
   ....:     .assign(rnk_min=tips.groupby(["sex"])["tip"].rank(method="min"))
   ....:     .query("rnk_min < 3")
   ....:     .sort_values(["sex", "rnk_min"])
   ....: )
   ....: 
Out[40]: 
     total_bill   tip     sex smoker  day    time  size  rnk_min
67         3.07  1.00  Female    Yes  Sat  Dinner     1      1.0
92         5.75  1.00  Female    Yes  Fri  Dinner     2      1.0
111        7.25  1.00  Female     No  Sat  Dinner     1      1.0
236       12.60  1.00    Male    Yes  Sat  Dinner     2      1.0
237       32.83  1.17    Male    Yes  Sat  Dinner     2      2.0

UPDATE#

UPDATE tips
SET tip = tip*2
WHERE tip < 2;
In [41]: tips.loc[tips["tip"] < 2, "tip"] *= 2

DELETE#

DELETE FROM tips
WHERE tip > 9;

在 pandas 中,我們選取應該保留的列,而不是刪除它們

In [42]: tips = tips.loc[tips["tip"] <= 9]