pandas.Index.item — pandas 3.0.0.dev0+2102.g839747c3f6 documentation (original) (raw)

Return the first element of the underlying data as a Python scalar.

Returns:

scalar

The first element of Series or Index.

Raises:

ValueError

If the data is not length = 1.

See also

Index.values

Returns an array representing the data in the Index.

Series.head

Returns the first n rows.

Examples

s = pd.Series([1]) s.item() 1

For an index:

s = pd.Series([1], index=["a"]) s.index.item() 'a'