Python: Pandas dataframe and for loop - seperate row variable outside of loop body

First of all, when using pandas, it is better to avoid for-loops as much as we can. It is faster to use pandas methods and there are plenty for everything you can do with a for loop.

For your case, you can define what you want to do in a function and pass it to the apply() method of pandas data frames. For example:

def body_for_loop(row, region_index): 
    name = row["Name"]
    regions = row.filter(regex = '^Region').values
    # body of loop

Now when you want to use it, you will just call:

df.apply(body_fro_loop, axis=1)

Python: Pandas dataframe and for loop - seperate row variable outside of loop body

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