pandas.Series.repeat

Series.repeat(repeats, axis=None)[source]

Repeat elements of a Series.

Returns a new Series where each element of the current Series is repeated consecutively a given number of times.

Parameters

repeats:int or array of ints

The number of repetitions for each element. This should be a non-negative integer. Repeating 0 times will return an empty Series.

axis:None

Must be None. Has no effect but is accepted for compatibility with numpy.

Returns

Series

Newly created Series with repeated elements.

See also

Index.repeat

Equivalent function for Index.

numpy.repeat

Similar method for numpy.ndarray.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series(['a', 'b', 'c'])
>>> s
0    a
1    b
2    c
dtype: object
>>> s.repeat(2)
0    a
0    a
1    b
1    b
2    c
2    c
dtype: object
>>> s.repeat([1, 2, 3])
0    a
1    b
1    b
2    c
2    c
2    c
dtype: object