List handling

2025-05-05

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Applies to Linux

Series.list can be used to access the values of the series as lists and apply list methods to it. These can be accessed like Series.list.<function/property>.

Series.list

List methods for Series

astype(dtype)	Return a new list Series with the leaf values casted to the specified data type.
concat([dropna])	For a column with at least one level of nesting, concatenate the lists in each row.
contains(search_key)	Returns boolean values indicating whether the specified scalar is an element of each row.
index(search_key)	Returns integers representing the index of the search key for each row.
get(index[, default])	Extract element at the given index from each list in a Series of lists.
leaves	From a Series of (possibly nested) lists, obtain the elements from the innermost lists as a flat Series (one value per row).
len()	Computes the length of each element in the Series/Index.
sort_values([ascending, inplace, kind, ...])	Sort each list by the values.
take(lists_indices)	Collect list elements based on given indices.
unique()	Returns the unique elements in each list.