import pandas as pd
data = {
"name": ["John", "Mary", "John", "Sally", "Mary"],
"age": [40, 30, 40, 50, 30],
"city": ["Bergen", "Oslo", "Stavanger", "Oslo", "Oslo"]
}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)
s = df.duplicated(subset=["name", "age"])
print(s)
#This example only compares "name" and "age", and
#column 2 is identical to column 0,
#column 4 is identical to column 1,
0 False 1 False 2 True 3 False 4 True dtype: bool