How can I calculate the total purchases per month when I have a pandas dataframe with two columns, where one column consists of repeating months and the other has purchase values?

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You can use pandas' groupby and sum functions to calculate the total purchases per month. Here's an example code:

import pandas as pd

# create sample dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'month': ['Jan', 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Feb'],
                   'purchase_value': [100, 200, 150, 250]})

# group by month and sum purchase values
monthly_total = df.groupby('month')['purchase_value'].sum()

# print the result
print(monthly_total)

Output:

month
Feb    400
Jan    300
Name: purchase_value, dtype: int64

In this example, we first create a sample dataframe with two columns: "month" and "purchasevalue". Then, we use the groupby function to group the dataframe by "month", and then apply the sum function to calculate the total purchases per month for the "purchasevalue" column. Finally, we print the result.