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

Series. to_dict(into=<class 'dict'>)[source]

Convert Series to {label -> value} dict or dict-like object.

Parameters: into : class, default dict The collections.Mapping subclass to use as the return object. Can be the actual class or an empty instance of the mapping type you want. If you want a collections.defaultdict, you must pass it initialized. New in version 0.21.0.
Returns: value_dict : collections.Mapping

Examples

s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4]) s.to_dict() {0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4} from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict s.to_dict(OrderedDict) OrderedDict([(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4)]) dd = defaultdict(list) s.to_dict(dd) defaultdict(<type 'list'>, {0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4})