count number of distinct values in a column pandas code example

Example 1: how to count number of unique values in a column python

pd.value_counts(df.Account_Type)

Gold        3
Platinum    1
Name: Account_Type, dtype: int64

Example 2: pandas count distinct values in a column

Series.value_counts(self, normalize=False, sort=True, ascending=False, bins=None, dropna=True)