how to convert dataframe to an array pandas code example

Example 1: convert array to dataframe python

np.random.seed(123)
e = np.random.normal(size=10)  
dataframe=pd.DataFrame(e, columns=['a']) 
print (dataframe)
          a
0 -1.085631
1  0.997345
2  0.282978
3 -1.506295
4 -0.578600
5  1.651437
6 -2.426679
7 -0.428913
8  1.265936
9 -0.866740

e_dataframe=pd.DataFrame({'a':e}) 
print (e_dataframe)
          a
0 -1.085631
1  0.997345
2  0.282978
3 -1.506295
4 -0.578600
5  1.651437
6 -2.426679
7 -0.428913
8  1.265936
9 -0.866740

Example 2: list dataframe to numpy array

df.values

array([[nan, 0.2, nan],
       [nan, nan, 0.5],
       [nan, 0.2, 0.5],
       [0.1, 0.2, nan],
       [0.1, 0.2, 0.5],
       [0.1, nan, 0.5],
       [0.1, nan, nan]])