Python Dictionary to Pandas Dataframe

Question

How do I convert a python dictionary to a pandas data frame. This is how I currently do it which is not at all elegant.

import pandas as pd
MyDict={'key1':'value1','key2' : 'value2'}
MyDF=pd.DataFrame.from_dict(MyDict,orient='index',dtype=None)
MyDF.index.name = 'Keys'
MyDF.reset_index(inplace=True)

I just want the 'key:value' pair in MyDict as the rows of a pandas dataframe.

Answer 1

pd.DataFrame({'Keys': MyDict.keys(), 'Values': MyDict.values()})

returns

   Keys  Values
0  key2  value2
1  key1  value1

Answer 2

If you want to use loc() to access each row in the DataFrame by key then

MyDF = pd.DataFrame([v for v in MyDict.values()], columns = ['value'],
                    index = [k for k in MyDict.keys()])

MyDF then contains

       value
key2  value2
key1  value1

and

MyDF.loc['key2'].value

returns

value2