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I have a list contained in each row and I would like to delete duplicated element by keeping the highest value from a score.

here is my data from data frame df1

        pair    score
0   [A , A ]    1.0000
1   [A , F ]    0.9990
2   [A , G ]    0.9985
3   [A , G ]    0.9975
4   [A , H ]    0.9985
5   [A , H ]    0.9990

I would like to see the result as

            pair    score
    0   [A , A ]    1.0000
    1   [A , F ]    0.9990
    2   [A , G ]    0.9985
    4   [A , H ]    0.9990

I have tried to use group by and set a score = max, but it's not working

Sujin
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First I think working with lists in pandas is not good idea.

Solution working if convert lists to helper column with tuples - then sort_values with drop_duplicates:

df['new'] = df.pair.apply(tuple)
df = df.sort_values('score', ascending=False).drop_duplicates('new')
print (df)
     pair   score     new
0  [A, A]  1.0000  (A, A)
1  [A, F]  0.9990  (A, F)
5  [A, H]  0.9990  (A, H)
2  [A, G]  0.9985  (A, G)

Or to 2 new columns:

df[['a', 'b']] = pd.DataFrame(df.pair.values.tolist())
df = df.sort_values('score', ascending=False).drop_duplicates(['a', 'b'])
print (df)
     pair   score  a  b
0  [A, A]  1.0000  A  A
1  [A, F]  0.9990  A  F
5  [A, H]  0.9990  A  H
2  [A, G]  0.9985  A  G
jezrael
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Make new column pair2 with sorted values of string type and then drop duplicates Will handle if pair have value [A,G] and [G,A] treating them same

df['pair2']=df.pair.map(sorted).astype(str)
df.sort_values('score',ascending=False).drop_duplicates('pair2',keep='first').drop('pair2',axis=1).reset_index(drop=True)

Ouput:

pair    score
[A, A]  1.0000
[A, F]  0.9990
[A, H]  0.9990
[A, G]  0.9985
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