python - Pandas DataFrame to List of Dictionaries -
i have following dataframe:
customer item1 item2 item3 1 apple milk tomato 2 water orange potato 3 juice mango chips
which want translate list of dictionaries per row
rows = [{'customer': 1, 'item1': 'apple', 'item2': 'milk', 'item3': 'tomato'}, {'customer': 2, 'item1': 'water', 'item2': 'orange', 'item3': 'potato'}, {'customer': 3, 'item1': 'juice', 'item2': 'mango', 'item3': 'chips'}]
use df.t.to_dict().values()
, below:
in [1]: df out[1]: customer item1 item2 item3 0 1 apple milk tomato 1 2 water orange potato 2 3 juice mango chips in [2]: df.t.to_dict().values() out[2]: [{'customer': 1.0, 'item1': 'apple', 'item2': 'milk', 'item3': 'tomato'}, {'customer': 2.0, 'item1': 'water', 'item2': 'orange', 'item3': 'potato'}, {'customer': 3.0, 'item1': 'juice', 'item2': 'mango', 'item3': 'chips'}]
as john galt mentions in his answer , should instead use df.to_dict('records')
. it's faster transposing manually.
in [20]: timeit df.t.to_dict().values() 1000 loops, best of 3: 395 µs per loop in [21]: timeit df.to_dict('records') 10000 loops, best of 3: 53 µs per loop