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

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

Repeat elements of a Series.

Returns a new Series where each element of the current Series 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 Series. axis : None Must be None. Has no effect but is accepted for compatibility with numpy.
Returns: repeated_series : Series Newly created Series with repeated elements.

Examples

s = pd.Series(['a', 'b', 'c']) s 0 a 1 b 2 c dtype: object s.repeat(2) 0 a 0 a 1 b 1 b 2 c 2 c dtype: object s.repeat([1, 2, 3]) 0 a 1 b 1 b 2 c 2 c 2 c dtype: object