pandas.Series.to_dict

Series.to_dict(into=<class 'dict'>) [source]

Convert Series to {label -> value} dict or dict-like object.

Parameters:

into : class, default dict

The collections.Mapping subclass to use as the return object. Can be the actual class or an empty instance of the mapping type you want. If you want a collections.defaultdict, you must pass it initialized.

New in version 0.21.0.

Returns:
value_dict : collections.Mapping

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> s.to_dict()
{0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4}
>>> from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
>>> s.to_dict(OrderedDict)
OrderedDict([(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4)])
>>> dd = defaultdict(list)
>>> s.to_dict(dd)
defaultdict(<type 'list'>, {0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4})

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