Python | Pandas dataframe.mul()

Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.
Pandas dataframe.mul() function return multiplication of dataframe and other element- wise. This function essentially does the same thing as the dataframe * other, but it provides an additional support to handle missing values in one of the inputs.
 

Syntax: DataFrame.mul(other, axis='columns', level=None, fill_value=None)
Parameters : 
other : Series, DataFrame, or constant 
axis : For Series input, axis to match Series index on 
level : Broadcast across a level, matching Index values on the passed MultiIndex level 
fill_value : Fill existing missing (NaN) values, and any new element needed for successful DataFrame alignment, with this value before computation. If data in both corresponding DataFrame locations is missing the result will be missing
Returns : result : DataFrame
 

Example #1: Use mul() function to find the multiplication of a dataframe with a series. 
Note : For multiplication with series, dataframe axis used for multiplication must match series index on.
 

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Creating the first dataframe 
df1=pd.DataFrame({"A":[14,4,5,4,1],
                  "B":[5,2,54,3,2],
                  "C":[20,20,7,3,8],
                  "D":[14,3,6,2,6]})

# Print the dataframe
df1

Let's create the series
 

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# create series
sr = pd.Series([3, 2, 4, 5, 6])

# Print series
sr

Lets use the dataframe.mul() function to perform multiplication 
 

# find multiplication over the index axis
df1.mul(sr, axis = 0)

Output : 
 

  
Example #2: Use mul() function to find the multiplication of two dataframes. One dataframe contains NA values.
 

# importing pandas as pd
import pandas as pd

# Creating the first dataframe 
df1=pd.DataFrame({"A":[14,4,5,4,1],
                  "B":[5,2,54,3,2],
                  "C":[20,20,7,3,8],
                  "D":[14,3,6,2,6]})

# Creating the second dataframe with <code>Na</code> value
df2=pd.DataFrame({"A":[12,4,5,None,1],
                  "B":[7,2,54,3,None],
                  "C":[20,16,11,3,8],
                  "D":[14,3,None,2,6]})

# Print the second dataframe
df2

Lets use the dataframe.mul() function to find the multiplication of two dataframes, also handle the missing values.
 

# fill the missing values with 100
df1.mul(df2, fill_value = 100)

Output : 
 

Notice, all the missing value cells has been filled with 100 before multiplication