pandas.Index.repeat — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

Index. repeat(repeats, axis=None)[source]

Repeat elements of a Index.

Returns a new Index where each element of the current Index is repeated consecutively a given number of times.

Parameters: repeats : int or array of ints The number of repetitions for each element. This should be a non-negative integer. Repeating 0 times will return an empty Index. axis : None Must be None. Has no effect but is accepted for compatibility with numpy.
Returns: repeated_index : Index Newly created Index with repeated elements.

Examples

idx = pd.Index(['a', 'b', 'c']) idx Index(['a', 'b', 'c'], dtype='object') idx.repeat(2) Index(['a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'], dtype='object') idx.repeat([1, 2, 3]) Index(['a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c'], dtype='object')