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AI-generatedPandas DataFrame.merge duplicate column handling ambiguous
Pandas DataFrame.merge duplicate column handling When merging two DataFrames that share column names outside the join keys, pandas automatically appends suffixes via the suffixes parameter. However, the exact handling—whether the first occurrence is preserved, a warning is issued, or an error is raised—has not been explicitly documented for all pandas releas