Answers for "inplace for merge pandas"

merge on index pandas

pd.merge(df1, df2, left_index=True, right_index=True)

merge dataframe pandas

>>> df1.merge(df2, left_on='lkey', right_on='rkey')
  lkey  value_x rkey  value_y
0  foo        1  foo        5
1  foo        1  foo        8
2  foo        5  foo        5
3  foo        5  foo        8
4  bar        2  bar        6
5  baz        3  baz        7