pandas.DataFrame.to_dict

DataFrame.to_dict(orient='dict')[source]

Convert DataFrame to dictionary.

Parameters:

orient : str {‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘series’, ‘split’, ‘records’, ‘index’}

Determines the type of the values of the dictionary.

  • dict (default) : dict like {column -> {index -> value}}

  • list : dict like {column -> [values]}

  • series : dict like {column -> Series(values)}

  • split : dict like {index -> [index], columns -> [columns], data -> [values]}

  • records : list like [{column -> value}, ... , {column -> value}]

  • index : dict like {index -> {column -> value}}

    New in version 0.17.0.

Abbreviations are allowed. s indicates series and sp indicates split.
Returns:

result : dict like {column -> {index -> value}}