pandas.DataFrame.to_dict

DataFrame.to_dict(orient='dict') [source]

Convert DataFrame to dictionary.

Parameters:

orient : str {‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘series’, ‘split’, ‘records’, ‘index’} Determines the type of the values of the dictionary. dict (default) : dict like {column -> {index -> value}} list : dict like {column -> [values]} series : dict like {column -> Series(values)} split : dict like {index -> [index], columns -> [columns], data -> [values]} records : list like [{column -> value}, ... , {column -> value}] index : dict like {index -> {column -> value}} New in version 0.17.0. Abbreviations are allowed. s indicates series and sp indicates split.

Returns:

result : dict like {column -> {index -> value}}