If you came here looking for information on how to merge a
DataFrame
andSeries
on the index, please look at this answer.The OP's original intention was to ask how to assign series elements as columns to another DataFrame. If you are interested in knowing the answer to this, look at the accepted answer by EdChum.
Best I can come up with is
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':[1, 2], 'b':[3, 4]}) # see EDIT below
s = pd.Series({'s1':5, 's2':6})
for name in s.index:
df[name] = s[name]
a b s1 s2
0 1 3 5 6
1 2 4 5 6
Can anybody suggest better syntax / faster method?
My attempts:
df.merge(s)
AttributeError: 'Series' object has no attribute 'columns'
and
df.join(s)
ValueError: Other Series must have a name
EDIT The first two answers posted highlighted a problem with my question, so please use the following to construct df
:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':[np.nan, 2, 3], 'b':[4, 5, 6]}, index=[3, 5, 6])
with the final result
a b s1 s2
3 NaN 4 5 6
5 2 5 5 6
6 3 6 5 6