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Groupby as list into new column

How can I aggreate all product names of the grouped dataframe into a new column as list or set:

import pandas as pd  # 2.0.3

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "customer_id": [1, 2, 3, 2, 1],
        "order_id": [1, 2, 3, 4, 1],
        "products": ["foo", "bar", "baz", "foo", "bar"],
        "amount": [1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
    }
)

print(df)
grouped = df.groupby(["customer_id", "order_id"])
df["product_order_count"] = grouped["amount"].transform("sum")
df["all_products"] = grouped["products"].agg(list).reset_index()
print(df)

Although I followed another question (Pandas groupby: How to get a union of strings) an exception is thrown:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\temp\tt.py", line 15, in <module>
    df["all_orders"] = grouped["products"].agg(list).reset_index()
  File "c:\Users\foo\.venvs\kapa_monitor-38\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 3940, in __setitem__
    self._set_item_frame_value(key, value)
  File "c:\Users\foo\.venvs\kapa_monitor-38\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 4094, in _set_item_frame_value
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: Cannot set a DataFrame with multiple columns to the single column all_products

Expected output (all_products, as list or set):

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   customer_id  order_id products  amount  product_order_count all_products
0            1         1      foo       1                    2 'foo', 'bar'
1            2         2      bar       1                    1 'bar'
2            3         3      baz       1                    1 'baz'
3            2         4      foo       1                    1 'foo'
4            1         1      bar       1                    2 'foo', 'bar'

>Solution :

You could use transform with a function that returns something that is the same length with the group:

df["all_products"] = grouped["products"].transform(lambda x: [list(x)]*len(x))

Output:

   customer_id  order_id products  amount  product_order_count all_products
0            1         1      foo       1                    2   [foo, bar]
1            2         2      bar       1                    1        [bar]
2            3         3      baz       1                    1        [baz]
3            2         4      foo       1                    1        [foo]
4            1         1      bar       1                    2   [foo, bar]

Or you can joint the strings (I don’t really recommend lists in the data):

df["all_products"] = grouped["products"].transform(','.join)

which gives

   customer_id  order_id products  amount  product_order_count all_products
0            1         1      foo       1                    2      foo,bar
1            2         2      bar       1                    1          bar
2            3         3      baz       1                    1          baz
3            2         4      foo       1                    1          foo
4            1         1      bar       1                    2      foo,bar
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