pandas.DataFrame.to_dict

DataFrame.to_dict(*args, **kwargs)

Convert DataFrame to dictionary.

Parameters :

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

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}]

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

Returns :

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