Basically I am trying to do the opposite of How to generate a list from a pandas DataFrame with the column name and column values?
To borrow that example, I want to go from the form:
data = [['Name','Rank','Complete'],
['one', 1, 1],
['two', 2, 1],
['three', 3, 1],
['four', 4, 1],
['five', 5, 1]]
which should output:
Name Rank Complete
One 1 1
Two 2 1
Three 3 1
Four 4 1
Five 5 1
However when I do something like:
pd.DataFrame(data)
I get a dataframe where the first list should be my colnames, and then the first element of each list should be the rowname
EDIT:
To clarify, I want the first element of each list to be the row name. I am scrapping data so it is formatted this way...
1 Answer
One way to do this would be to take the column names as a separate list and then only give from 1st index for pd.DataFrame -
In [8]: data = [['Name','Rank','Complete'],
...: ['one', 1, 1],
...: ['two', 2, 1],
...: ['three', 3, 1],
...: ['four', 4, 1],
...: ['five', 5, 1]]
In [10]: df = pd.DataFrame(data[1:],columns=data[0])
In [11]: df
Out[11]:
Name Rank Complete
0 one 1 1
1 two 2 1
2 three 3 1
3 four 4 1
4 five 5 1
If you want to set the first column Name column as index, use the .set_index() method and send in the column to use for index. Example -
In [16]: df = pd.DataFrame(data[1:],columns=data[0]).set_index('Name')
In [17]: df
Out[17]:
Rank Complete
Name
one 1 1
two 2 1
three 3 1
four 4 1
five 5 1
