Question

I have a pandas DataFrame that has multiple columns in it:

Index: 239897 entries, 2012-05-11 15:20:00 to 2012-06-02 23:44:51
Data columns:
foo                   11516  non-null values
bar                   228381  non-null values
Time_UTC              239897  non-null values
dtstamp               239897  non-null values
dtypes: float64(4), object(1)

where foo and bar are columns which contain the same data yet are named differently. Is there are a way to move the rows which make up foo into bar, ideally whilst maintaining the name of bar?

In the end the DataFrame should appear as:

Index: 239897 entries, 2012-05-11 15:20:00 to 2012-06-02 23:44:51
Data columns:
bar                   239897  non-null values
Time_UTC              239897  non-null values
dtstamp               239897  non-null values
dtypes: float64(4), object(1)

That is the NaN values that made up bar were replaced by the values from foo.

Answer 1

Try this:

pandas.concat([df['foo'].dropna(), df['bar'].dropna()]).reindex_like(df)

If you want that data to become the new column bar, just assign the result to df['bar'].