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Chapter 2: Series

Creating a Series instance

face Josiah Wang

Your data can also be a Python dict. The dict keys will automatically be used as the index.

>>> series = pd.Series(data={"a": "UK", "b": "France", "c": "Italy"})
>>> print(series)
a        UK
b    France
c     Italy
dtype: object

If you provide an index, then pandas will attempt to match the indices to your dict keys, and use the corresponding values as the data instance.

>>> series = pd.Series(data={"a": "UK", "b": "France", "c": "Italy"},
...                    index=["b", "c", "d", "a"])
>>> print(series)
b    France
c     Italy
d       NaN
a        UK
dtype: object