pandas.Index.repeat

Index.repeat(repeats, *args, **kwargs)

Repeat elements of an Index.

Returns a new index where each element of the current index is repeated consecutively a given number of times.

Parameters:

repeats : int

The number of repetitions for each element.

**kwargs

Additional keywords have no effect but might be accepted for compatibility with numpy.

Returns:

pandas.Index

Newly created Index with repeated elements.

See also

Series.repeat

Equivalent function for Series

numpy.repeat

Underlying implementation

Examples

>>> idx = pd.Index([1, 2, 3])
>>> idx
Int64Index([1, 2, 3], dtype='int64')
>>> idx.repeat(2)
Int64Index([1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3], dtype='int64')
>>> idx.repeat(3)
Int64Index([1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3], dtype='int64')