pandas to dict column as key code example

Example 1: pandas dataframe from dict

data = {'col_1': [3, 2, 1, 0], 'col_2': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']}
pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)

Example 2: dataframe to dictionary with one column as key

pd.Series(df.A.values,index=df.B).to_dict()

Example 3: convert dict to dataframe

#Lazy way to convert json dict to df

pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data, orient='index').T

Example 4: dataframe from dict

pd.DataFrame.from_dict(data)

Example 5: pandas to dictionary

df.to_dict('records')