Issue

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I have a list of dataframes, I want to add a new column to each dataframe that is the name of the dataframe.

df_all = [df1,df2,df3]

for df in df_all:
    df["Loc"] = df[df].astype.(str)

Boolean array expected for the condition, not object

is this possible to achieve?

Solution

You can’t do this, python objects have no possibility to know their name(s).

You could emulate it with:

df_all = [df1, df2, df3]

for i, df in enumerate(df_all, start=1):
    df['Loc'] = f'df{i}'

Alternatively, use a dictionary:

df_all = {'df1': df1, 'df2': df2, 'df3': df3}

for k, df in df_all.items():
    df['Loc'] = k

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