Python Pandas:如何将列中的所有列表编译为一个唯一列表

Question

我有一个pandas数据帧如下:

如何将所有列表(在'val'列中)组合成一个唯一的列表(set),例如[val1, val2, val33, val9, val6, val7]？

我可以使用以下代码解决这个问题.我想知道是否有更简单的方法从列中获取所有唯一值而不迭代数据帧行？

def_contributors=[]
for index, row in df.iterrows():
    contri = ast.literal_eval(row['val'])
    def_contributors.extend(contri)
def_contributors = list(set(def_contributors))

Answer 1

导出Series到嵌套的另一个解决方案lists然后应用于set展平列表:

df = pd.DataFrame({'id':['a','b', 'c'], 'val':[['val1','val2'],
                                               ['val33','val9','val6'],
                                               ['val2','val6','val7']]})

print (df)
  id                  val
0  a         [val1, val2]
1  b  [val33, val9, val6]
2  c   [val2, val6, val7]

print (type(df.val.ix[0]))
<class 'list'>

print (df.val.tolist())
[['val1', 'val2'], ['val33', 'val9', 'val6'], ['val2', 'val6', 'val7']]

print (list(set([a for b in df.val.tolist() for a in b])))
['val7', 'val1', 'val6', 'val33', 'val2', 'val9']

时间:

df = pd.concat([df]*1000).reset_index(drop=True)

In [307]: %timeit (df['val'].apply(pd.Series).stack().unique()).tolist()
1 loop, best of 3: 410 ms per loop

In [355]: %timeit (pd.Series(sum(df.val.tolist(),[])).unique().tolist())
10 loops, best of 3: 31.9 ms per loop

In [308]: %timeit np.unique(np.hstack(df.val)).tolist()
100 loops, best of 3: 10.7 ms per loop

In [309]: %timeit (list(set([a for b in df.val.tolist() for a in b])))
1000 loops, best of 3: 558 µs per loop

如果类型不是,list但string使用str.strip和str.split:

df = pd.DataFrame({'id':['a','b', 'c'], 'val':["[val1,val2]",
                                               "[val33,val9,val6]",
                                               "[val2,val6,val7]"]})

print (df)
  id                val
0  a        [val1,val2]
1  b  [val33,val9,val6]
2  c   [val2,val6,val7]

print (type(df.val.ix[0]))
<class 'str'>

print (df.val.str.strip('[]').str.split(','))
0           [val1, val2]
1    [val33, val9, val6]
2     [val2, val6, val7]
Name: val, dtype: object

print (list(set([a for b in df.val.str.strip('[]').str.split(',') for a in b])))
['val7', 'val1', 'val6', 'val33', 'val2', 'val9']

Answer 2

将该列转换为DataFrame .apply(pd.Series).如果堆叠列,则可以unique在返回的Series上调用该方法.

df
Out[123]: 
            val
0      [v1, v2]
1      [v3, v2]
2  [v4, v3, v2]

df['val'].apply(pd.Series).stack().unique()
Out[124]: array(['v1', 'v2', 'v3', 'v4'], dtype=object)