Compare row with all other previous string in one column and change value of another column in Python - python-3.x

Question

I have a csv file named namelist.csv, it includes:
Index String Size Name
1 AAA123000DDD 10 One
2 AAA123DDDQQQ 20 One
3 AAA123000DDD 25 One
4 AAA123D 20 One
5 ABA 15 One
6 FFFrrrSSSBBB 60 Two
7 FFFrrrSSSBBB 30 Two
8 FFFrrrSS 50 Two
9 AAA12 70 Two
I want to compare row in column String of each name group: if the string in each row is match or is substring of all above rows then remove the previous rows and sum the value of Size column to the value of subtring row.
Example: i take row 3rd: AAA123000DDD, i compare it to 2 row 1st and 2nd, it see that it is a match with 1st row, it will remove the 1st row then sum value of the 1st row column Size to the 3rd row column Size .
then the table will be like:
Index String Size Name
2 AAA123DDDQQQ 20 One
3 AAA123000DDD 35 One
4 AAA123D 20 One
...
the final result will be:
Index String Size Name
3 AAA123000DDD 35 One
4 AAA123D 40 One
5 ABA 15 One
8 FFFrrrSS 140 Two
9 AAA12 70 Two
i think of using groupby of pandas to group all Name column, but i don't know how to apply the comparison of String column and sum of Size column.
I am new to Python so any help I will very appreciate.

Answer 1

Assuming Name is distinct with String, here's how you would do the aggregation. I kept Name so that it also shows in the final DataFrame.
df_group = df.groupby(['String', 'Name'])['Size'].sum().reset_index()
Edit:
To match the substrings (and using the example above that it appears that a substring will not match with multiple strings), you can make a mapping of substrings to full strings and then group by the full string column as before:
all_strings = set(df['Strings'])
substring_dict = dict()
for row in df.itertuples():
for item in all_strings:
if row.String in item:
substring_dict[row.String] = item
def match_substring(x):
return substring_dict[x]
df['full_strings'] = df.String.apply(match_substring)
df_group = df.groupby(['full_strings', 'Name'])['Size'].sum().reset_index()