Can you help me understand this Python question?
In this question, you are going to add PE sponsors for all M&A deals that have PE-backed buyers (or equivalently, acquirers).
1.The first tab of the spreadsheet that includes all M&A deals that have PE-backed buyers. PE-backed company means that the company was acquired by private equity firms.
2.The second tab of the spreadsheet includes all M&A deals that PE-backed buyers were acquired by PE firms.
3.In the spreadsheet, instead of using actual names of companies, we use ID numbers for name. When ID = 0, it means that this company doesn’t have a profile in our database. It doesn’t really matter in this problem. In addition, we use different “ma_deal_id” to represent different M&A deals as well.
4.For simplicity, we assume that all PE deals are 100% acquisition.
Here is an example:
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