pandas.Series.min

Series.min(*, axis=0, skipna=True, numeric_only=False, **kwargs)

Return the minimum of the values over the requested axis.

If you want the index of the minimum, use idxmin. This is the equivalent of the numpy.ndarray method argmin.

Parameters:

axis{index (0)}

Axis for the function to be applied on. For Series this parameter is unused and defaults to 0.

For DataFrames, specifying axis=None will apply the aggregation across both axes.

Added in version 2.0.0.

skipnabool, default True

Exclude NA/null values when computing the result.

numeric_onlybool, default False

Include only float, int, boolean columns.

**kwargs

Additional keyword arguments to be passed to the function.

Returns:

scalar or Series (if level specified)

The minimum of the values in the Series.

See also

numpy.min

Equivalent numpy function for arrays.

Series.min

Return the minimum.

Series.max

Return the maximum.

Series.idxmin

Return the index of the minimum.

Series.idxmax

Return the index of the maximum.

DataFrame.min

Return the minimum over the requested axis.

DataFrame.max

Return the maximum over the requested axis.

DataFrame.idxmin

Return the index of the minimum over the requested axis.

DataFrame.idxmax

Return the index of the maximum over the requested axis.

Examples

>>> idx = pd.MultiIndex.from_arrays(
...     [["warm", "warm", "cold", "cold"], ["dog", "falcon", "fish", "spider"]],
...     names=["blooded", "animal"],
... )
>>> s = pd.Series([4, 2, 0, 8], name="legs", index=idx)
>>> s
blooded  animal
warm     dog       4
         falcon    2
cold     fish      0
         spider    8
Name: legs, dtype: int64

>>> s.min()
0