pandas.Series.apply — pandas 0.16.2 documentation (original) (raw)

Series.apply(func, convert_dtype=True, args=(), **kwds)

Invoke function on values of Series. Can be ufunc (a NumPy function that applies to the entire Series) or a Python function that only works on single values

Parameters: func : function convert_dtype : boolean, default True Try to find better dtype for elementwise function results. If False, leave as dtype=object args : tuple Positional arguments to pass to function in addition to the value Additional keyword arguments will be passed as keywords to the function
Returns: y : Series or DataFrame if func returns a Series