Re-fetch error: cannot re-index non-ideal index using method or restriction

Question

I use Pandas to structure and process data.

I have a DataFrame with dates in the form of index, Id and bit rate. I want to group my data by identifier and repeat the selection, at the same time, according to the time that applies to each identifier, and finally, save the bitrate estimate.

For example, given:

df = pd.DataFrame(
{'Id' : ['CODI126640013.ts', 'CODI126622312.ts'],
'beginning_time':['2016-07-08 02:17:42', '2016-07-08 02:05:35'], 
'end_time' :['2016-07-08 02:17:55', '2016-07-08 02:26:11'],
'bitrate': ['3750000', '3750000'],
'type' : ['vod', 'catchup'],
'unique_id' : ['f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524be30', 'f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524bb22']})

which gives:

This is my code to get a unique column for dates every time Id and bitrate:

df = df.drop(['type', 'unique_id'], axis=1)
df.beginning_time = pd.to_datetime(df.beginning_time)
df.end_time = pd.to_datetime(df.end_time)
df = pd.melt(df, id_vars=['Id','bitrate'], value_name='dates').drop('variable', axis=1)
df.set_index('dates', inplace=True)

which gives:

And now, time for a Resample! This is my code:

print (df.groupby('Id').resample('1S').ffill())

And this is the result:

This is exactly what I want to do! I have 38,279 logs with the same columns, and I have an error message when I do the same. The first part works fine and gives the following:

(df.groupby('Id'). resample ('1S'). ffill()) :

ValueError: cannot reindex a non-unique index with a method or limit

? Thnx!

Answer 1

, beginning_time end_time, :

df = pd.DataFrame(
{'Id' : ['CODI126640013.ts', 'CODI126622312.ts', 'a'],
'beginning_time':['2016-07-08 02:17:42', '2016-07-08 02:17:42', '2016-07-08 02:17:45'], 
'end_time' :['2016-07-08 02:17:42', '2016-07-08 02:17:42', '2016-07-08 02:17:42'],
'bitrate': ['3750000', '3750000', '444'],
'type' : ['vod', 'catchup', 's'],
'unique_id':['f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524be30', 'f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524bb22','w']})

print (df)  
                 Id       beginning_time  bitrate             end_time  \
0  CODI126640013.ts  2016-07-08 02:17:42  3750000  2016-07-08 02:17:42   
1  CODI126622312.ts  2016-07-08 02:17:42  3750000  2016-07-08 02:17:42   
2                 a  2016-07-08 02:17:45      444  2016-07-08 02:17:42   

      type                             unique_id  
0      vod  f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524be30  
1  catchup  f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524bb22  
2        s                                     w  

df = df.drop(['type', 'unique_id'], axis=1)
df.beginning_time = pd.to_datetime(df.beginning_time)
df.end_time = pd.to_datetime(df.end_time)
df = pd.melt(df, id_vars=['Id','bitrate'], value_name='dates').drop('variable', axis=1)
df.set_index('dates', inplace=True)


print (df)  
                                   Id  bitrate
dates                                         
2016-07-08 02:17:42  CODI126640013.ts  3750000
2016-07-08 02:17:42  CODI126622312.ts  3750000
2016-07-08 02:17:45                 a      444
2016-07-08 02:17:42  CODI126640013.ts  3750000
2016-07-08 02:17:42  CODI126622312.ts  3750000
2016-07-08 02:17:42                 a      444

print (df.groupby('Id').resample('1S').ffill())

ValueError:

- drop_duplicates resample groupby:

df = df.drop(['type', 'unique_id'], axis=1)
df.beginning_time = pd.to_datetime(df.beginning_time)
df.end_time = pd.to_datetime(df.end_time)
df = pd.melt(df, id_vars=['Id','bitrate'], value_name='dates').drop('variable', axis=1)

print (df.groupby('Id').apply(lambda x : x.drop_duplicates('dates')
                                          .set_index('dates')
                                          .resample('1S')
                                          .ffill()))

                                                    Id  bitrate
Id               dates                                         
CODI126622312.ts 2016-07-08 02:17:42  CODI126622312.ts  3750000
CODI126640013.ts 2016-07-08 02:17:42  CODI126640013.ts  3750000
a                2016-07-08 02:17:41                 a      444
                 2016-07-08 02:17:42                 a      444
                 2016-07-08 02:17:43                 a      444
                 2016-07-08 02:17:44                 a      444
                 2016-07-08 02:17:45                 a      444

boolean indexing:

print (df[df.beginning_time == df.end_time])
2        s                                     w  
                 Id       beginning_time  bitrate             end_time  \
0  CODI126640013.ts  2016-07-08 02:17:42  3750000  2016-07-08 02:17:42   
1  CODI126622312.ts  2016-07-08 02:17:42  3750000  2016-07-08 02:17:42   

      type                             unique_id  
0      vod  f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524be30  
1  catchup  f2514f6b-ce7e-4e1a-8f6a-3ac5d524bb22