How to keep index when using pandas merge

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1197...

Accepted answer links:
[drop duplicates]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/st...

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

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