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Pandas: Append a list of dictioneries or series to a existing DataFrame


4. Append List of Dictionaries/Series

Write a Pandas program to append a list of dictioneries or series to a existing DataFrame and display the combined data.

Test Data:

  student_id              name  marks
0         S1  Danniella Fenton    200
1         S2      Ryder Storey    210
2         S3      Bryce Jensen    190
3         S4         Ed Bernal    222
4         S5       Kwame Morin    199
Dictionary:
student_id                  S6
name          Scarlette Fisher
marks                      205
dtype: object

Sample Solution:

Python Code :

import pandas as pd
student_data1  = pd.DataFrame({
        'student_id': ['S1', 'S2', 'S3', 'S4', 'S5'],
         'name': ['Danniella Fenton', 'Ryder Storey', 'Bryce Jensen', 'Ed Bernal', 'Kwame Morin'], 
        'marks': [200, 210, 190, 222, 199]})

s6 = pd.Series(['S6', 'Scarlette Fisher', 205], index=['student_id', 'name', 'marks'])


dicts = [{'student_id': 'S6', 'name': 'Scarlette Fisher', 'marks': 203},
         {'student_id': 'S7', 'name': 'Bryce Jensen', 'marks': 207}]

print("Original DataFrames:")
print(student_data1)
print("\nDictionary:")
print(s6)
combined_data =  student_data1.append(dicts, ignore_index=True, sort=False)
print("\nCombined Data:")
print(combined_data)

Sample Output:

Original DataFrames:
  student_id              name  marks
0         S1  Danniella Fenton    200
1         S2      Ryder Storey    210
2         S3      Bryce Jensen    190
3         S4         Ed Bernal    222
4         S5       Kwame Morin    199

Dictionary:
student_id                  S6
name          Scarlette Fisher
marks                      205
dtype: object

Combined Data:
  student_id              name  marks
0         S1  Danniella Fenton    200
1         S2      Ryder Storey    210
2         S3      Bryce Jensen    190
3         S4         Ed Bernal    222
4         S5       Kwame Morin    199
5         S6  Scarlette Fisher    203
6         S7      Bryce Jensen    207           

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

  • Write a Pandas program to append a list of dictionaries to an existing DataFrame and then sort by a specified column.
  • Write a Pandas program to add multiple Series as rows to a DataFrame and then reindex the final DataFrame.
  • Write a Pandas program to convert a list of dictionaries into a DataFrame and then concatenate it with an existing DataFrame.
  • Write a Pandas program to append a list of dictionaries to a DataFrame and then fill missing values with the column mean.

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