How to get the first column of a pandas DataFrame as a Series

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I tried   x pandas DataFrame      s   x take  0   axis 1    And s gets a DataFrame  not a Series

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df df columns i    where i is the position number of the column starting from 0   So  i   0 is for the first column  You can also get the last column using i   -1

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From v0 11       use df iloc   In  7   df iloc   0  Out 7    0    1 1    2 2    3 3    4 Name  x  dtype  int64

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This works great when you want to load a series from a csv file  x   pd read csv  x csv   index col False  names   x   header None  iloc   0  print type x   print x head 10      lt class  pandas core series Series  gt  0    110 96 1    119 40 2    135 89 3    152 32 4    192 91 5    177 20 6    181 16 7    177 30 8    200 13 9    235 41 Name  x  dtype  float64

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You can get the first column as a Series by following code   x x columns 0

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gt  gt  gt  import pandas as pd  gt  gt  gt  df   pd DataFrame   x     1  2  3  4    y     4  5  6  7     gt  gt  gt  df    x  y 0  1  4 1  2  5 2  3  6 3  4  7  gt  gt  gt  s   df ix   0   gt  gt  gt  type s   lt class  pandas core series Series  gt   gt  gt  gt                                                                                 UPDATE  If you re reading this after June 2017  ix has been deprecated in pandas 0 20 2  so don t use it  Use loc or iloc instead  See comments and other answers to this question

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Isn t this the simplest way   By column name   In  20   df   pd DataFrame   x     1  2  3  4    y     4  5  6  7    In  21   df Out 21       x   y 0   1   4 1   2   5 2   3   6 3   4   7  In  23   df x Out 23   0    1 1    2 2    3 3    4 Name  x  dtype  int64  In  24   type df x  Out 24   pandas core series Series

[python] How to get the first column of a pandas DataFrame as a Series?

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