Pandas convert dataframe values to column names

Question

I want to use dataframe values as column names and simplify the dataframe.

I tried df.stack() and then index.map('{0[0]}_{0[1]}'.format)

Input_df(Got this df by doing a groupby):

link price  date
 A     1    01/01
 A     2    01/02
 A     1.2  01/03

Desired_ouput:

link price_01/01 price_01/02 price_01/03
  A      1            2         1.2

Answer 1

Forget mapping over a multiindex

df.set_index(['link', 'date']).price.unstack().add_prefix('price_')

date  price_01/01  price_01/02  price_01/03
link                                       
A             1.0          2.0          1.2

Answer 2

You can try this using set_index and unstack, then using Python 3.6+ can you use f-string with list comprehension to flatten multiindex column headers.

df_out = df.set_index(['link', 'date']).unstack()

df_out.columns = [f'{i}_{j}' for i, j in df_out.columns]

df_out.reset_index()

Output:

  link  price_01/01  price_01/02  price_01/03
0    A          1.0          2.0          1.2