pandas.Series.repeat

Series.repeat(repeats, axis=None)[source]

Repeat elements of a Series.

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

Parameters
repeatsint or array of ints

The number of repetitions for each element. This should be a non-negative integer. Repeating 0 times will return an empty Series.

axisNone

Unused. Parameter needed for compatibility with DataFrame.

Returns
Series

Newly created Series with repeated elements.

See also

Index.repeat

Equivalent function for Index.

numpy.repeat

Similar method for numpy.ndarray.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series(['a', 'b', 'c'])
>>> s
0    a
1    b
2    c
dtype: object
>>> s.repeat(2)
0    a
0    a
1    b
1    b
2    c
2    c
dtype: object
>>> s.repeat([1, 2, 3])
0    a
1    b
1    b
2    c
2    c
2    c
dtype: object