OK I am trying something I think should be very simple but it’s doesn’t seem to be working.
I have a Panda Dataframe which includes many columns. There are 2 which I want to multiply but instead of the resulting new column displaying the result of multiplying the two values, it shows the value in column A the number of times that is in column B
Example:
dataframe['totalcost'] = dataframe['orderedQuantity.amount'].mul(dataframe['netCost.amount'])
Also tried this:
dataframe['totalcost'] = dataframe['orderedQuantity.amount'] * dataframe['netCost.amount']
netCost.amount = 12
orderedQuantity.amount = 3
totalcost results in 121212 instead of 36
What am I missing?
>Solution :
Seems like the values in orderedQuantity are string/object type. Cast to numeric to resolve the issue
dataframe['totalcost'] = dataframe['orderedQuantity.amount'].astype(float).mul(dataframe['netCost.amount'])