mlgill

import pandas as pa

def rmerge(left,right,**kwargs):
    """Perform a merge using pandas with optional removal of overlapping
    column names not associated with the join. 
    
    Though I suspect this does not adhere to the spirit of pandas merge 
    command, I find it useful because re-executing IPython notebook cells 
    containing a merge command does not result in the replacement of existing
    columns if the name of the resulting DataFrame is the same as one of the