pandas.Series.head — pandas 0.25.3 documentation (original) (raw)
Series. head(self, n=5)[source]¶
Return the first n rows.
This function returns the first n rows for the object based on position. It is useful for quickly testing if your object has the right type of data in it.
| Parameters: | n : int, default 5 Number of rows to select. |
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| Returns: | obj_head : same type as caller The first n rows of the caller object. |
Examples
df = pd.DataFrame({'animal':['alligator', 'bee', 'falcon', 'lion', ... 'monkey', 'parrot', 'shark', 'whale', 'zebra']}) df animal 0 alligator 1 bee 2 falcon 3 lion 4 monkey 5 parrot 6 shark 7 whale 8 zebra
Viewing the first 5 lines
df.head() animal 0 alligator 1 bee 2 falcon 3 lion 4 monkey
Viewing the first n lines (three in this case)
df.head(3) animal 0 alligator 1 bee 2 falcon