I have a DataFrame with four columns. I want to convert this DataFrame to a python dictionary. I want the elements of first column be keys and the elements of other columns in same row be values.
DataFrame:
ID A B C 0 p 1 3 2 1 q 4 3 2 2 r 4 0 9
Output should be like this:
Dictionary:
{'p': [1,3,2], 'q': [4,3,2], 'r': [4,0,9]}
Answers:
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Method 1
The to_dict() method sets the column names as dictionary keys so you’ll need to reshape your DataFrame slightly. Setting the ‘ID’ column as the index and then transposing the DataFrame is one way to achieve this.
to_dict() also accepts an ‘orient’ argument which you’ll need in order to output a list of values for each column. Otherwise, a dictionary of the form {index: value} will be returned for each column.
These steps can be done with the following line:
>>> df.set_index('ID').T.to_dict('list')
{'p': [1, 3, 2], 'q': [4, 3, 2], 'r': [4, 0, 9]}
In case a different dictionary format is needed, here are examples of the possible orient arguments. Consider the following simple DataFrame:
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'], 'b': [0.5, 0.25, 0.125]})
>>> df
a b
0 red 0.500
1 yellow 0.250
2 blue 0.125
Then the options are as follows.
dict – the default: column names are keys, values are dictionaries of index:data pairs
>>> df.to_dict('dict')
{'a': {0: 'red', 1: 'yellow', 2: 'blue'},
'b': {0: 0.5, 1: 0.25, 2: 0.125}}
list – keys are column names, values are lists of column data
>>> df.to_dict('list')
{'a': ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'],
'b': [0.5, 0.25, 0.125]}
series – like ‘list’, but values are Series
>>> df.to_dict('series')
{'a': 0 red
1 yellow
2 blue
Name: a, dtype: object,
'b': 0 0.500
1 0.250
2 0.125
Name: b, dtype: float64}
split – splits columns/data/index as keys with values being column names, data values by row and index labels respectively
>>> df.to_dict('split')
{'columns': ['a', 'b'],
'data': [['red', 0.5], ['yellow', 0.25], ['blue', 0.125]],
'index': [0, 1, 2]}
records – each row becomes a dictionary where key is column name and value is the data in the cell
>>> df.to_dict('records')
[{'a': 'red', 'b': 0.5},
{'a': 'yellow', 'b': 0.25},
{'a': 'blue', 'b': 0.125}]
index – like ‘records’, but a dictionary of dictionaries with keys as index labels (rather than a list)
>>> df.to_dict('index')
{0: {'a': 'red', 'b': 0.5},
1: {'a': 'yellow', 'b': 0.25},
2: {'a': 'blue', 'b': 0.125}}
Method 2
Should a dictionary like:
{'red': '0.500', 'yellow': '0.250', 'blue': '0.125'}
be required out of a dataframe like:
a b 0 red 0.500 1 yellow 0.250 2 blue 0.125
simplest way would be to do:
dict(df.values)
working snippet below:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'], 'b': [0.5, 0.25, 0.125]})
dict(df.values)
Method 3
Try to use Zip
df = pd.read_csv("file")
d= dict([(i,[a,b,c ]) for i, a,b,c in zip(df.ID, df.A,df.B,df.C)])
print d
Output:
{'p': [1, 3, 2], 'q': [4, 3, 2], 'r': [4, 0, 9]}
Method 4
Follow these steps:
Suppose your dataframe is as follows:
>>> df A B C ID 0 1 3 2 p 1 4 3 2 q 2 4 0 9 r
1. Use set_index to set ID columns as the dataframe index.
df.set_index("ID", drop=True, inplace=True)
2. Use the orient=index parameter to have the index as dictionary keys.
dictionary = df.to_dict(orient="index")
The results will be as follows:
>>> dictionary
{'q': {'A': 4, 'B': 3, 'D': 2}, 'p': {'A': 1, 'B': 3, 'D': 2}, 'r': {'A': 4, 'B': 0, 'D': 9}}
3. If you need to have each sample as a list run the following code. Determine the column order
column_order= ["A", "B", "C"] # Determine your preferred order of columns
d = {} # Initialize the new dictionary as an empty dictionary
for k in dictionary:
d[k] = [dictionary[k][column_name] for column_name in column_order]
Method 5
If you don’t mind the dictionary values being tuples, you can use itertuples:
>>> {x[0]: x[1:] for x in df.itertuples(index=False)}
{'p': (1, 3, 2), 'q': (4, 3, 2), 'r': (4, 0, 9)}
Method 6
For my use (node names with xy positions) I found @user4179775’s answer to the most helpful / intuitive:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('glycolysis_nodes_xy.tsv', sep='t')
df.head()
nodes x y
0 c00033 146 958
1 c00031 601 195
...
xy_dict_list=dict([(i,[a,b]) for i, a,b in zip(df.nodes, df.x,df.y)])
xy_dict_list
{'c00022': [483, 868],
'c00024': [146, 868],
... }
xy_dict_tuples=dict([(i,(a,b)) for i, a,b in zip(df.nodes, df.x,df.y)])
xy_dict_tuples
{'c00022': (483, 868),
'c00024': (146, 868),
... }
Addendum
I later returned to this issue, for other, but related, work. Here is an approach that more closely mirrors the [excellent] accepted answer.
node_df = pd.read_csv('node_prop-glycolysis_tca-from_pg.tsv', sep='t')
node_df.head()
node kegg_id kegg_cid name wt vis
0 22 22 c00022 pyruvate 1 1
1 24 24 c00024 acetyl-CoA 1 1
...
Convert Pandas dataframe to a
, {dict}, {dict of {dict}}, …
Per accepted answer:
node_df.set_index('kegg_cid').T.to_dict('list')
{'c00022': [22, 22, 'pyruvate', 1, 1],
'c00024': [24, 24, 'acetyl-CoA', 1, 1],
... }
node_df.set_index('kegg_cid').T.to_dict('dict')
{'c00022': {'kegg_id': 22, 'name': 'pyruvate', 'node': 22, 'vis': 1, 'wt': 1},
'c00024': {'kegg_id': 24, 'name': 'acetyl-CoA', 'node': 24, 'vis': 1, 'wt': 1},
... }
In my case, I wanted to do the same thing but with selected columns from the Pandas dataframe, so I needed to slice the columns. There are two approaches.
- Directly:
(see: Convert pandas to dictionary defining the columns used fo the key values)
node_df.set_index('kegg_cid')[['name', 'wt', 'vis']].T.to_dict('dict')
{'c00022': {'name': 'pyruvate', 'vis': 1, 'wt': 1},
'c00024': {'name': 'acetyl-CoA', 'vis': 1, 'wt': 1},
... }
- “Indirectly:” first, slice the desired columns/data from the Pandas dataframe (again, two approaches),
node_df_sliced = node_df[['kegg_cid', 'name', 'wt', 'vis']]
or
node_df_sliced2 = node_df.loc[:, ['kegg_cid', 'name', 'wt', 'vis']]
that can then can be used to create a dictionary of dictionaries
node_df_sliced.set_index('kegg_cid').T.to_dict('dict')
{'c00022': {'name': 'pyruvate', 'vis': 1, 'wt': 1},
'c00024': {'name': 'acetyl-CoA', 'vis': 1, 'wt': 1},
... }
Method 7
Dictionary comprehension & iterrows() method could also be used to get the desired output.
result = {row.ID: [row.A, row.B, row.C] for (index, row) in df.iterrows()}
Method 8
Most of the answers do not deal with the situation where ID can exist multiple times in the dataframe. In case ID can be duplicated in the Dataframe df you want to use a list to store the values (a.k.a a list of lists), grouped by ID:
{k: [g['A'].tolist(), g['B'].tolist(), g['C'].tolist()] for k,g in df.groupby('ID')}
Method 9
df = pd.DataFrame([['p',1,3,2], ['q',4,3,2], ['r',4,0,9]], columns=['ID','A','B','C'])
my_dict = {k:list(v) for k,v in zip(df['ID'], df.drop(columns='ID').values)}
print(my_dict)
with output
{'p': [1, 3, 2], 'q': [4, 3, 2], 'r': [4, 0, 9]}
Method 10
With this method, columns of dataframe will be the keys and series of dataframe will be the values.`
data_dict = dict()
for col in dataframe.columns:
data_dict[col] = dataframe[col].values.tolist()
Method 11
DataFrame.to_dict() converts DataFrame to dictionary.
Example
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(
{'col1': [1, 2], 'col2': [0.5, 0.75]}, index=['a', 'b'])
>>> df
col1 col2
a 1 0.1
b 2 0.2
>>> df.to_dict()
{'col1': {'a': 1, 'b': 2}, 'col2': {'a': 0.5, 'b': 0.75}}
See this Documentation for details
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