Preserve Index When Merging Pandas DataFrames

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11976503/how-to-keep-index-when-using-pandas-merge

Accepted answer links:
[drop duplicates]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.drop_duplicates.html

Answer 3 links:
[Series.map]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.Series.map.html
[DataFrame.set_index]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.set_index.html

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