pandas 0.9.1 documentation

pandas.DataFrame.idxmax

DataFrame.idxmax(axis=0, skipna=True)

Return index of first occurrence of maximum over requested axis. NA/null values are excluded.

Parameters :

axis : {0, 1}

0 for row-wise, 1 for column-wise

skipna : boolean, default True

Exclude NA/null values. If an entire row/column is NA, the result will be first index.

Returns :

idxmax : Series