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How to rename the rows in dataframe using pandas read (Python)?

I want to rename rows in python program (version - spyder 3 - python 3.6) . At this point I have something like that:
import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv(filepath, delim_whitespace = True, header = None)
Before that i wanted to rename my columns:
data.columns = ['A', 'B', 'C']
It gave me something like that.
A B C
0 1 n 1
1 1 H 0
2 2 He 1
3 3 Be 2
But now, I want to rename rows. I want:
A B C
n 1 n 1
H 1 H 0
He 2 He 1
Be 3 Be 2
How can I do it? The main idea is to rename every row created by pd.read by the data in the B column. I tried something like this:
for rows in data:
data.rename(index={0:'df.loc(index, 'B')', 1:'one'})
but it's not working.
Any ideas? Maybe just replace the data frame rows by column B? How?

I think need set_index with rename_axis:
df1 = df.set_index('B', drop=False).rename_axis(None)
Solution with rename and dictionary:
df1 = df.rename(dict(zip(df.index, df['B'])))
print (dict(zip(df.index, df['B'])))
{0: 'n', 1: 'H', 2: 'He', 3: 'Be'}
If default RangeIndex solution should be:
df1 = df.rename(dict(enumerate(df['B'])))
print (dict(enumerate(df['B'])))
{0: 'n', 1: 'H', 2: 'He', 3: 'Be'}
Output:
print (df1)
A B C
n 1 n 1
H 1 H 0
He 2 He 1
Be 3 Be 2
EDIT:
If dont want column B solution is with read_csv by parameter index_col:
import pandas as pd
temp=u"""1 n 1
1 H 0
2 He 1
3 Be 2"""
#after testing replace 'pd.compat.StringIO(temp)' to 'filename.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(pd.compat.StringIO(temp), delim_whitespace=True, header=None, index_col=[1])
print (df)
0 2
1
n 1 1
H 1 0
He 2 1
Be 3 2

I normally rename my rows in my dataset by following these steps.
import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_csv("zzzz.csv")
#in a dataframe it is hard to change the names of our rows so,
df.transpose()
#this changes all the rows to columns
df.columns=["","",.....]
# make sure the length of this and the length of columns are same ie dont skip any names.
#Once you are done renaming them:
df.transpose()
#We get our original dataset with changed row names.

just put colnames into "names" when reading
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('filename.csv', names=["colname A", "colname B"])

Changing multiple column names

Let's say I have a data frame with such column names:
['a','b','c','d','e','f','g']
And I would like to change names from 'c' to 'f' (actually add string to the name of column), so the whole data frame column names would look like this:
['a','b','var_c_equal','var_d_equal','var_e_equal','var_f_equal','g']
Well, firstly I made a function that changes column names with the string i want:
df.rename(columns=lambda x: 'or_'+x+'_no', inplace=True)
But now I really want to understand how to implement something like this:
df.loc[:,'c':'f'].rename(columns=lambda x: 'var_'+x+'_equal', inplace=True)

You can a use a list comprehension for that like:
Code:
new_columns = ['var_{}_equal'.format(c) if c in 'cdef' else c for c in columns]
Test Code:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':(1,2), 'b':(1,2), 'c':(1,2), 'd':(1,2)})
print(df)
df.columns = ['var_{}_equal'.format(c) if c in 'cdef' else c
for c in df.columns]
print(df)
Results:
a b c d
0 1 1 1 1
1 2 2 2 2
a b var_c_equal var_d_equal
0 1 1 1 1
1 2 2 2 2

One way is to use a dictionary instead of an anonymous function. Both the below variations assume the columns you need to rename are contiguous.
Contiguous columns by position
d = {k: 'var_'+k+'_equal' for k in df.columns[2:6]}
df = df.rename(columns=d)
Contiguous columns by name
If you need to calculate the numerical indices:
cols = df.columns.get_loc
d = {k: 'var_'+k+'_equal' for k in df.columns[cols('c'):cols('f')+1]}
df = df.rename(columns=d)
Specifically identified columns
If you want to provide the columns explicitly:
d = {k: 'var_'+k+'_equal' for k in 'cdef'}
df = df.rename(columns=d)

reshape a pandas dataframe

suppose a dataframe like this one:
df = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]], columns = ['A', 'B', 'A1', 'B1'])
I would like to have a dataframe which looks like:
what does not work:
new_rows = int(df.shape[1]/2) * df.shape[0]
new_cols = 2
df.values.reshape(new_rows, new_cols, order='F')
of course I could loop over the data and make a new list of list but there must be a better way. Any ideas ?

The pd.wide_to_long function is built almost exactly for this situation, where you have many of the same variable prefixes that end in a different digit suffix. The only difference here is that your first set of variables don't have a suffix, so you will need to rename your columns first.
The only issue with pd.wide_to_long is that it must have an identification variable, i, unlike melt. reset_index is used to create a this uniquely identifying column, which is dropped later. I think this might get corrected in the future.
df1 = df.rename(columns={'A':'A1', 'B':'B1', 'A1':'A2', 'B1':'B2'}).reset_index()
pd.wide_to_long(df1, stubnames=['A', 'B'], i='index', j='id')\
.reset_index()[['A', 'B', 'id']]
A B id
0 1 2 1
1 5 6 1
2 9 10 1
3 3 4 2
4 7 8 2
5 11 12 2

You can use lreshape, for column id numpy.repeat:
a = [col for col in df.columns if 'A' in col]
b = [col for col in df.columns if 'B' in col]
df1 = pd.lreshape(df, {'A' : a, 'B' : b})
df1['id'] = np.repeat(np.arange(len(df.columns) // 2), len (df.index)) + 1
print (df1)
A B id
0 1 2 1
1 5 6 1
2 9 10 1
3 3 4 2
4 7 8 2
5 11 12 2
EDIT:
lreshape is currently undocumented, but it is possible it might be removed(with pd.wide_to_long too).
Possible solution is merging all 3 functions to one - maybe melt, but now it is not implementated. Maybe in some new version of pandas. Then my answer will be updated.

I solved this in 3 steps:
Make a new dataframe df2 holding only the data you want to be added to the initial dataframe df.
Delete the data from df that will be added below (and that was used to make df2.
Append df2 to df.
Like so:
# step 1: create new dataframe
df2 = df[['A1', 'B1']]
df2.columns = ['A', 'B']
# step 2: delete that data from original
df = df.drop(["A1", "B1"], 1)
# step 3: append
df = df.append(df2, ignore_index=True)
Note how when you do df.append() you need to specify ignore_index=True so the new columns get appended to the index rather than keep their old index.
Your end result should be your original dataframe with the data rearranged like you wanted:
In [16]: df
Out[16]:
A B
0 1 2
1 5 6
2 9 10
3 3 4
4 7 8
5 11 12

Use pd.concat() like so:
#Split into separate tables
df_1 = df[['A', 'B']]
df_2 = df[['A1', 'B1']]
df_2.columns = ['A', 'B'] # Make column names line up
# Add the ID column
df_1 = df_1.assign(id=1)
df_2 = df_2.assign(id=2)
# Concatenate
pd.concat([df_1, df_2])

pandas convert grouped rows into columns

I have a dataframe such as:
label column1
a 1
a 2
b 6
b 4
I would like to make a dataframe with a new column, with the opposite value from column1 where the labels match. Such as:
label column1 column2
a 1 2
a 2 1
b 6 4
b 4 6
I know this is probably very simple to do with a groupby command but I've been searching and can't find anything.

The following uses groupby and apply and seems to work okay:
x = pd.DataFrame({ 'label': ['a','a','b','b'],
'column1': [1,2,6,4] })
y = x.groupby('label').apply(
lambda g: g.assign(column2 = np.asarray(g.column1[::-1])))
y = y.reset_index(drop=True) # optional: drop weird index
print(y)

you can try the code block below:
#create the Dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'label':['a','a','b','b'],
'column1':[1,2,6,4]})
#Group by label
a = df.groupby('label').first().reset_index()
b = df.groupby('label').last().reset_index()
#Concat those groups to create columns2
df2 = (pd.concat([b,a])
.sort_values(by='label')
.rename(columns={'column1':'column2'})
.reset_index()
.drop('index',axis=1))
#Merge with the original Dataframe
df = df.merge(df2,left_index=True,right_index=True,on='label')[['label','column1','column2']]
Hope this helps

Assuming their are only pairs of labels, you could use the following as well:
# Create dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame(data = {'label' :['a', 'a', 'b', 'b'],
'column1' :[1,2, 6,4]})
# iterate over dataframe, identify matching label and opposite value
for index, row in df.iterrows():
newvalue = int(df[(df.label == row.label) & (df.column1 != row.column1)].column1.values[0])
# set value to new column
df.set_value(index, 'column2', newvalue)
df.head()

You can use groupby with apply where create new Series with back order:
df['column2'] = df.groupby('label')["column1"] \
.apply(lambda x: pd.Series(x[::-1].values)).reset_index(drop=True)
print (df)
column1 label column2
0 1 a 2
1 2 a 1
2 6 b 4
3 4 b 6

Pandas flatten hierarchical index on non overlapping columns

I have a dataframe, and I set the index to a column of the dataframe. This creates a hierarchical column index. I want to flatten the columns to a single level. Similar to this question - Python Pandas - How to flatten a hierarchical index in columns, however, the columns do not overlap (i.e. 'id' is not at level 0 of the hierarchical index, and other columns are at level 1 of the index).
df = pd.DataFrame([(101,3,'x'), (102,5,'y')], columns=['id', 'A', 'B'])
df.set_index('id', inplace=True)
A B
id
101 3 x
102 5 y
Desired output is flattened columns, like this:
id A B
101 3 x
102 5 y

You are misinterpreting what you are seeing.
A B
id
101 3 x
102 5 y
Is not showing you a hierarchical column index. id is the name of the row index. In order to show you the name of the index, pandas is putting that space there for you.
The answer to your question depends on what you really want or need.
As the df is, you can dump it to a csv just the way you want:
print(df.to_csv(sep='\t'))
id A B
101 3 x
102 5 y
print(df.to_csv())
id,A,B
101,3,x
102,5,y
Or you can alter the df so that it displays the way you'd like
print(df.rename_axis(None))
A B
101 3 x
102 5 y
please do not do this!!!!
I'm putting it to demonstrate how to manipulate
I could also keep the index as it is but manipulate both column and row index names to print how you would like.
print(df.rename_axis(None).rename_axis('id', 1))
id A B
101 3 x
102 5 y
But this has named the columns' index id which makes no sense.

there will always be an index in your dataframes. if you don't set 'id' as index, it will be at the same level as other columns and pandas will populate an increasing integer for your index starting from 0.
df = pd.DataFrame([(101,3,'x'), (102,5,'y')], columns=['id', 'A', 'B'])
In[52]: df
Out[52]:
id A B
0 101 3 x
1 102 5 y
the index is there so you can slice the original dataframe. such has
df.iloc[0]
Out[53]:
id 101
A 3
B x
Name: 0, dtype: object
so let says you want ID as index and ID as a column, which is very redundant, you could do:
df = pd.DataFrame([(101,3,'x'), (102,5,'y')], columns=['id', 'A', 'B'])
df.set_index('id', inplace=True)
df['id'] = df.index
df
Out[55]:
A B id
id
101 3 x 101
102 5 y 102
with this you can slice by 'id' such has:
df.loc[101]
Out[57]:
A 3
B x
id 101
Name: 101, dtype: object
but it would the same info has :
df = pd.DataFrame([(101,3,'x'), (102,5,'y')], columns=['id', 'A', 'B'])
df.set_index('id', inplace=True)
df.loc[101]
Out[58]:
A 3
B x
Name: 101, dtype: object

Given:
>>> df2=pd.DataFrame([(101,3,'x'), (102,5,'y')], columns=['id', 'A', 'B'])
>>> df2.set_index('id', inplace=True)
>>> df2
A B
id
101 3 x
102 5 y
For printing purdy, you can produce a copy of the DataFrame with a reset the index and use .to_string:
>>> print df2.reset_index().to_string(index=False)
id A B
101 3 x
102 5 y
Then play around with the formatting options so that the output suites your needs:
>>> fmts=[lambda s: u"{:^5}".format(str(s).strip())]*3
>>> print df2.reset_index().to_string(index=False, formatters=fmts)
id A B
101 3 x
102 5 y