I am relatively new to Pandas, and was hoping for guidance on the most efficient and clean way to handle multiple rules/masks to the same dataframe column.
I have two unique and independent conditions working:
Condition 1
df["price"]= df["price"].mask(df["price"].eq("£ 0.00"), df["product_price_old"])
df.drop(axis=1, inplace=True, columns='product_price_old')
Condition 2
df["price"] = df["price"].mask(df["product_price_old"].gt(df["price"]), df["product_price_old"])
df.drop(axis=1, inplace=True, columns='product_price_old')
What is the best syntax in Pandas to merge these conditions together and remove the duplication?
Would a separate Python function and call it via .agg? I came across a .pipe in the docs earlier, would this be a suitable use case?
Any help would be appreciated.