pandas.Series.pop — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

Series. pop(item)[source]¶

Return item and drop from frame. Raise KeyError if not found.

Examples

df = pd.DataFrame([('falcon', 'bird', 389.0), ... ('parrot', 'bird', 24.0), ... ('lion', 'mammal', 80.5), ... ('monkey', 'mammal', np.nan)], ... columns=('name', 'class', 'max_speed')) df name class max_speed 0 falcon bird 389.0 1 parrot bird 24.0 2 lion mammal 80.5 3 monkey mammal NaN

df.pop('class') 0 bird 1 bird 2 mammal 3 mammal Name: class, dtype: object

df name max_speed 0 falcon 389.0 1 parrot 24.0 2 lion 80.5 3 monkey NaN