pandas.Series.rename

Series.rename(index=None, *, axis=None, copy=True, inplace=False, level=None, errors='ignore')

Alter Series index labels or name.

Function / dict values must be unique (1-to-1). Labels not contained in a dict / Series will be left as-is. Extra labels listed don’t throw an error.

Alternatively, change Series.name with a scalar value.

See the user guide for more.

Parameters

axis{0 or “index”}

Unused. Accepted for compatibility with DataFrame method only.

indexscalar, hashable sequence, dict-like or function, optional

Functions or dict-like are transformations to apply to the index. Scalar or hashable sequence-like will alter the Series.name attribute.

**kwargs

Additional keyword arguments passed to the function. Only the “inplace” keyword is used.

Returns

Series or None

Series with index labels or name altered or None if inplace=True.

See also

DataFrame.rename

Corresponding DataFrame method.

Series.rename_axis

Set the name of the axis.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])
>>> s
0    1
1    2
2    3
dtype: int64
>>> s.rename("my_name")  # scalar, changes Series.name
0    1
1    2
2    3
Name: my_name, dtype: int64
>>> s.rename(lambda x: x ** 2)  # function, changes labels
0    1
1    2
4    3
dtype: int64
>>> s.rename({1: 3, 2: 5})  # mapping, changes labels
0    1
3    2
5    3
dtype: int64

pandas.Series.reindex_like pandas.Series.rename_axis