")
    A length-2 sequence where each element is optionally a string
    indicating the suffix to add to overlapping column names in
    `left` and `right` respectively. Pass a value of `None` instead
    of a string to indicate that the column name from `left` or
    `right` should be left as-is, with no suffix. At least one of the
    values must not be None.
copy : bool, default True
    If False, avoid copy if possible.
indicator : bool or str, default False
    If True, adds a column to the output DataFrame called "_merge" with
    information on the source of each row. The column can be given a different
    name by providing a string argument. The column will have a Categorical
    type with the value of "left_only" for observations whose merge key only
    appears in the left DataFrame, "right_only" for observations
    whose merge key only appears in the right DataFrame, and "both"
    if the observation's merge key is found in both DataFrames.

validate : str, optional
    If specified, checks if merge is of specified type.

    * "one_to_one" or "1:1": check if merge keys are unique in both
      left and right datasets.
    * "one_to_many" or "1:m": check if merge keys are unique in left
      dataset.
    * "many_to_one" or "m:1": check if merge keys are unique in right
      dataset.
    * "many_to_many" or "m:m": allowed, but does not result in checks.

Returns
-------
DataFrame
    A DataFrame of the two merged objects.

See Also
--------
merge_ordered : Merge with optional filling/interpolation.
merge_asof : Merge on nearest keys.
DataFrame.join : Similar method using indices.

Examples
--------
>>> df1 = pd.DataFrame({'lkey': ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'foo'],
...                     'value': [1, 2, 3, 5]})
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame({'rkey': ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'foo'],
...                     'value': [5, 6, 7, 8]})
>>> df1
    lkey value
0   foo      1
1   bar      2
2   baz      3
3   foo      5
>>> df2
    rkey value
0   foo      5
1   bar      6
2   baz      7
3   foo      8

Merge df1 and df2 on the lkey and rkey columns. The value columns have
the default suffixes, _x and _y, appended.

>>> df1.merge(df2, left_on='lkey', right_on='rkey')
  lkey  value_x rkey  value_y
0  foo        1  foo        5
1  foo        1  foo        8
2  foo        5  foo        5
3  foo        5  foo        8
4  bar        2  bar        6
5  baz        3  baz        7

Merge DataFrames df1 and df2 with specified left and right suffixes
appended to any overlapping columns.

>>> df1.merge(df2, left_on='lkey', right_on='rkey',
...           suffixes=('_left', '_right'))
  lkey  value_left rkey  value_right
0  foo           1  foo            5
1  foo           1  foo            8
2  foo           5  foo            5
3  foo           5  foo            8
4  bar           2  bar            6
5  baz           3  baz            7

Merge DataFrames df1 and df2, but raise an exception if the DataFrames have
any overlapping columns.

>>> df1.merge(df2, left_on='lkey', right_on='rkey', suffixes=(False, False))
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: columns overlap but no suffix specified:
    Index(['value'], dtype='object')

>>> df1 = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['foo', 'bar'], 'b': [1, 2]})
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['foo', 'baz'], 'c': [3, 4]})
>>> df1
      a  b
0   foo  1
1   bar  2
>>> df2
      a  c
0   foo  3
1   baz  4

>>> df1.merge(df2, how='inner', on='a')
      a  b  c
0   foo  1  3

>>> df1.merge(df2, how='left', on='a')
      a  b  c
0   foo  1  3.0
1   bar  2  NaN

>>> df1 = pd.DataFrame({'left': ['foo', 'bar']})
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame({'right': [7, 8]})
>>> df1
    left
0   foo
1   bar
>>> df2
    right
0   7
1   8

>>> df1.merge(df2, how='cross')
   left  right
0   foo      7
1   foo      8
2   bar      7
3   bar      8
c