Microsoft Excel Tutorial: VLOOKUP in Python for Excel

How to do a VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP in Python.

To download the examples in this workbook: https://www.mrexcel.com/youtube/h6__fB7vo4k/

Along the way, you will see:
101: Doing a VLOOKUP
Not specifying the key field!
What if a customer is missing from lookup table? How to IFERROR()
Limiting which fields are returned.
What if headings don’t match?
What if a customer is duplicated?
Lookup on two fields.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Python lookup overview
(0:25) Comment indicator in Python
(1:00) VLOOKUP 101 in Python using pd.merge
(2:36) Leaving off the On field
(2:50) IFERROR when customer missing with .FillNA
(3:23) Limiting lookup table to needed fields
(4:04) Headings don’t match left_on and right_on!
(4:50) .drop method to remove a column from Python
(5:12) If duplicate in lookup table
(6:00) drop_duplicates to remove duplicates
(7:06) What is the right way to show duplicates
(7:29) Lookup on two fields
(8:11) Final thoughts on pd.merge
(8:50) Building blocks in Python
(9:28) Nancy Faust