pandas.core.series.Series - The Column Class

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∟pandas.core.series.Series - The Column Class

This section describes pandas.core.series.Series class, which represents a column of data.

What Is pandas.core.frame.Series? pandas.core.frame.Series is a class that represents a column of data.

Main features of pandas.DataFrame are:

Rows are indexed - Rows can be accessed by the index value or by the position. The default index value is the row position number which starts with 0.
Size is mutable - Rows can dynamically added and removed.

Here are some basic properties, operations and methods provided in pandas.core.frame.Series class.

1. df[col_name] - Method to extract a given column from a DataFrame as a Series.

>>> import pandas as pd

>>>
df = pd.DataFrame({
  "Name": [
    "Braund, Mr. Owen Harris",
    "Allen, Mr. William Henry",
    "Bonnell, Miss. Elizabeth",
  ],
  "Age": [22, 35, 58],
  "Sex": ["male", "male", "female"],
})

>>> ser = df["Name"]
>>> type(ser)
pandas.core.series.Series

>>> print(ser)
ser
0     Braund, Mr. Owen Harris
1    Allen, Mr. William Henry
2    Bonnell, Miss. Elizabeth
Name: Name, dtype: object