pandas row as dict code example

Example 1: dataframe to dictionary

>>> df.to_dict('records')
[{'col1': 1, 'col2': 0.5}, {'col1': 2, 'col2': 0.75}]

Example 2: pandas row from dict

data = {'row_1': [3, 2, 1, 0], 'row_2': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']}
pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data, orient='index')