fill nan with string before groupby pandas

Question

I have a table like this

src | dst | amount
------------------
a   | c   | 100
b   | c   | 50
a   | b   | 40
a   | nan | 10
nan | nan | 100

and i want a table like this, where I group by src and sum the amount sent, and if the src is nan is want to replace with "unknown".

entity | sent 
------------- 
a      | 150    
b      | 50    
uknown | 100

Answer 1

If nan is missing value replace it before aggregation:

df = (df.fillna({'src': 'unknown'})
        .groupby('src')['amount']
        .sum()
        .rename_axis('entity')
        .reset_index(name='sent'))
print (df)
    entity  sent
0        a   150
1        b    50
2  unknown   100

Or if 'nan' is string use:

df = (df.replace({'src': {'nan': 'unknown'}})
        .groupby('src')['amount']
        .sum()
        .rename_axis('entity')
        .reset_index(name='sent'))
print (df)
    entity  sent
0        a   150
1        b    50
2  unknown   100

Another ideas:

df.groupby(df['src'].fillna('unknown').rename('entity'))['sent'].sum().reset_index()

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df.groupby(df['src'].replace('nan','unknown').rename('entity'))['sent'].sum().reset_index()