How to get a single value as a string from pandas data frame

Question

I am querying a single value from my data frame which seems to be 'dtype: object'. I simply want to print the value as it is with out printing the index or other information as well. How do I do this?

col_names = ['Host', 'Port']
df = pd.DataFrame(columns=col_names)
df.loc[len(df)] = ['a', 'b']

t = df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port']
print(t)

OUTPUT:

EXPECTED OUTPUT: b

Answer 1

If you can guarantee only one result is returned, use loc and call item:

>>> df.loc[df['Host'] == 'a', 'Port'].item() 'b' 

Or, similarly,

>>> df.loc[df['Host'] == 'a', 'Port'].values[0] 'b' 

...to get the first value (similarly, .values[1] for the second). Which is better than df.loc[df['Host'] == 'a', 'Port'][0] because, if your DataFrame looks like this,

  Host Port 1    a    b 

Then "KeyError: 0" will be thrown—

df.loc[df['Host'] == 'a', 'Port'][0] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last) 

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Alternatively, use at:

>>> df.at[df['Host'].eq('a').idxmax(), 'Port'] 'b' 

The drawback is that if 'a' doesn't exist, idxmax will return the first index (and return an incorrect result).

Answer 2

it should work simply..

>>> df   Host Port 0    a    b >>> df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][0]   # will choose the first index simply which is 'b' 'b' 

OR, use with print which will strip off the surrounded single ticks.

>>> print(df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][0]) b 

This will easier because you have just choose the desired Index even if you have Multiple values across Port columns

Example:

>>> df   Host Port 0    a    b 1    c    c 

Looking for distinct a & c based on Index:

>>> df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][0] 'b' >>> df[df['Host'] == 'c']['Port'][1] 'c' 

Answer 3

As mentioned in my comment, using [1] should work afterwards, to pull the variable you're looking for.

t = df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][1]