pandas.DataFrame.apply

DataFrame.apply(func, axis=0, broadcast=False, raw=False, args=(), **kwds)

Applies function along input axis of DataFrame. Objects passed to functions are Series objects having index either the DataFrame’s index (axis=0) or the columns (axis=1). Return type depends on whether passed function aggregates

func : function

Function to apply to each column

axis : {0, 1}

0 : apply function to each column 1 : apply function to each row

broadcast : bool, default False

For aggregation functions, return object of same size with values propagated

raw : boolean, default False

If False, convert each row or column into a Series. If raw=True the passed function will receive ndarray objects instead. If you are just applying a NumPy reduction function this will achieve much better performance

args : tuple

Positional arguments to pass to function in addition to the array/series

Additional keyword arguments will be passed as keywords to the function

>>> df.apply(numpy.sqrt) # returns DataFrame
>>> df.apply(numpy.sum, axis=0) # equiv to df.sum(0)
>>> df.apply(numpy.sum, axis=1) # equiv to df.sum(1)

DataFrame.applymap: For elementwise operations

applied : Series or DataFrame