pandas.DataFrame.to_dict — pandas 0.16.2 documentation (original) (raw)

DataFrame.to_dict(*args, **kwargs)¶

Convert DataFrame to dictionary.

Parameters:	orient : str {‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘series’, ‘split’, ‘records’} Determines the type of the values of the dictionary. dict (default) : dict like {column -> {index -> value}} list : dict like {column -> [values]} series : dict like {column -> Series(values)} split : dict like {index -> [index], columns -> [columns], data -> [values]} records : list like [{column -> value}, ... , {column -> value}] Abbreviations are allowed. s indicates series and spindicates split.
Returns:	result : dict like {column -> {index -> value}}

Parameters:

orient : str {‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘series’, ‘split’, ‘records’} Determines the type of the values of the dictionary. dict (default) : dict like {column -> {index -> value}} list : dict like {column -> [values]} series : dict like {column -> Series(values)} split : dict like {index -> [index], columns -> [columns], data -> [values]} records : list like [{column -> value}, ... , {column -> value}] Abbreviations are allowed. s indicates series and spindicates split.

Returns:

result : dict like {column -> {index -> value}}