I'd like to create a DataFrame
from a dict
where the dict
keys
will be the column names and the dict
values
will be the rows. I'm trying to use pandas.DataFrame.from_dict()
to convert my dictionary. Here's my code:
import pandas as pd
import datetime
current_time1 = datetime.datetime.now()
record_1 = {'Date':current_time1, 'Player':'John','Difficulty':'hard', 'Score':0}
df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(record_1, orient='columns')
display(df)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-597ef27e82c8> in <module>()
1 record_1 = {'Date':current_time1, 'Player':'John','Difficulty':'hard', 'Score':0}
----> 2 df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(record_1, orient='columns')
3 display(df)
C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\User\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.pyc in from_dict(cls, data, orient, dtype)
635 raise ValueError('only recognize index or columns for orient')
636
--> 637 return cls(data, index=index, columns=columns, dtype=dtype)
638
639 def to_dict(self, outtype='dict'):
C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\User\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.pyc in __init__(self, data, index, columns, dtype, copy)
201 dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
202 elif isinstance(data, dict):
--> 203 mgr = self._init_dict(data, index, columns, dtype=dtype)
204 elif isinstance(data, ma.MaskedArray):
205 import numpy.ma.mrecords as mrecords
C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\User\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.pyc in _init_dict(self, data, index, columns, dtype)
325
326 return _arrays_to_mgr(arrays, data_names, index, columns,
--> 327 dtype=dtype)
328
329 def _init_ndarray(self, values, index, columns, dtype=None,
C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\User\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.pyc in _arrays_to_mgr(arrays, arr_names, index, columns, dtype)
4618 # figure out the index, if necessary
4619 if index is None:
-> 4620 index = extract_index(arrays)
4621 else:
4622 index = _ensure_index(index)
C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\User\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.pyc in extract_index(data)
4657
4658 if not indexes and not raw_lengths:
-> 4659 raise ValueError('If using all scalar values, you must must pass'
4660 ' an index')
4661
ValueError: If using all scalar values, you must must pass an index
I don't understand the error, in the docs for pandas.DataFrame.from_dict
there's no index argument. Also, I thought that if an index isn't supplied pandas
would use 1..x? How can I pass an index?
Additional information: I'd like to use the date column as the index in the end.
If each dict represents a row, you could pass a list of dicts to pd.DataFrame
:
In [37]: pd.DataFrame([record_1])
Out[37]:
Date Difficulty Player Score
0 2014-09-27 08:26:16.950192 hard John 0
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