How To Find Duplicates In Pandas Dataframe

Editing. Suppose I have the following series in pandas: >>>p 0 0.0 1 0.0 2 0.0 3 0.3 4 0.3 5 0.3 6 0.3 7 0.3 8 1.0 9 1.0 10 1.

Solution 1:

I believe need trick with compare shifted values for not equal by ne with cumsum and last drop_duplicates:

s = df['a'].ne(df['a'].shift()).cumsum()
a = s.drop_duplicates().index
b = s.drop_duplicates(keep='last').index

df = pd.DataFrame({'first':a, 'last':b})
print (df)
   first  last
0      0     2
1      3     7
2      8    10
3     11    12
4     13    15

If want also duplicated value to new column a bit change solution with duplicated:

s = df['a'].ne(df['a'].shift()).cumsum()
a = df.loc[~s.duplicated(), 'a']
b = s.drop_duplicates(keep='last')

df = pd.DataFrame({'first':a.index, 'last':b.index, 'val':a})
print (df)
    first  last  val
0       0     2  0.0
3       3     7  0.3
8       8    10  1.0
11     11    12  0.2
13     13    15  0.3

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If need new column:

df['count'] = df['a'].ne(df['a'].shift()).cumsum()
print (df)
      a  count
0   0.0      1
1   0.0      1
2   0.0      1
3   0.3      2
4   0.3      2
5   0.3      2
6   0.3      2
7   0.3      2
8   1.0      3
9   1.0      3
10  1.0      3
11  0.2      4
12  0.2      4
13  0.3      5
14  0.3      5
15  0.3      5