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def generate_new_keys(*args,key='Carid',name='Carname'): | |
""" | |
Takes in a number of dataframes and returns any duplicates with a new unique id. | |
groupby columns fixed to CarID and CarName. | |
""" | |
# adds dictionaries into a single list. | |
dicts_ = [arg.groupby(key)[name].first().to_dict() for arg in args] | |
#merges dicts on unique key, this will exclude duplicates. | |
merged_dicts = dict(ChainMap(*dicts_)) | |
#get the duplicate and pass the name into a list. | |
delta = [v for each_dict in dicts_ for k,v in each_dict.items() if v not in merged_dict.values()] | |
# get the max sequence key | |
start_key = max(merged_dict.keys()) + 1 | |
# create a new sequence | |
sequence = range(start_key, start_key + len(delta) + 1) | |
# return a dictionary. | |
return {name : number for name,number in zip(delta,sequence)} | |
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