Another fairly common situation is to have two like-indexed (or similarly indexed) Series or DataFrame objects and wanting to “patch” values in one object from values for matching indices in the other. Here is an example:

In [133]: result = df1.combine_first(df2)

可见，combine_first() 方法能够实现数两张表的填充，实际使用中非常方便。

Note that this method only takes values from the right DataFrame if they are missing in the left DataFrame. A related method, update(), alters non-NA values in place:

In [134]: df1.update(df2)