pandas.Series.any

Series.any(self, axis=0, bool_only=None, skipna=True, level=None, **kwargs)

Return whether any element is True, potentially over an axis.

Returns False unless there at least one element within a series or along a Dataframe axis that is True or equivalent (e.g. non-zero or non-empty).

Parameters:

axis : {0 or ‘index’, 1 or ‘columns’, None}, default 0

Indicate which axis or axes should be reduced.

• 0 / ‘index’ : reduce the index, return a Series whose index is the original column labels.
• 1 / ‘columns’ : reduce the columns, return a Series whose index is the original index.
• None : reduce all axes, return a scalar.

bool_only : bool, default None

Include only boolean columns. If None, will attempt to use everything, then use only boolean data. Not implemented for Series.

skipna : bool, default True

Exclude NA/null values. If the entire row/column is NA and skipna is True, then the result will be False, as for an empty row/column. If skipna is False, then NA are treated as True, because these are not equal to zero.

level : int or level name, default None

If the axis is a MultiIndex (hierarchical), count along a particular level, collapsing into a scalar.

**kwargs : any, default None

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

Returns:

scalar or Series

If level is specified, then, Series is returned; otherwise, scalar is returned.

See also

numpy.any

Numpy version of this method.

Series.any

Return whether any element is True.

Series.all

Return whether all elements are True.

DataFrame.any

Return whether any element is True over requested axis.

DataFrame.all

Return whether all elements are True over requested axis.

Examples

Series

For Series input, the output is a scalar indicating whether any element is True.

>>> pd.Series([False, False]).any()
False
>>> pd.Series([True, False]).any()
True
>>> pd.Series([]).any()
False
>>> pd.Series([np.nan]).any()
False
>>> pd.Series([np.nan]).any(skipna=False)
True

DataFrame

Whether each column contains at least one True element (the default).

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2], "B": [0, 2], "C": [0, 0]})
>>> df
   A  B  C
0  1  0  0
1  2  2  0

>>> df.any()
A     True
B     True
C    False
dtype: bool

Aggregating over the columns.

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [True, False], "B": [1, 2]})
>>> df
       A  B
0   True  1
1  False  2

>>> df.any(axis='columns')
0    True
1    True
dtype: bool

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [True, False], "B": [1, 0]})
>>> df
       A  B
0   True  1
1  False  0

>>> df.any(axis='columns')
0    True
1    False
dtype: bool

Aggregating over the entire DataFrame with axis=None.

>>> df.any(axis=None)
True

any for an empty DataFrame is an empty Series.

>>> pd.DataFrame([]).any()
Series([], dtype: bool)