pandas

from pandas import Series, DataFrame
import pandas as pd

1. Series

if index is not indicated, the system will use 0-N-1 automatically

obj = Series([1, 2, 4, 0])
obj.values
obj.index

index is used to indicate very single data

obj2 = Series([1, 2, 3], index=['1st', '2nd', '3rd'])

Get data by index

obj2[‘1st’]

Python object(dict) can create Series directly

dicts = {'1st': 1, '2nd':2, '3rd':3} 
obj3 = Series(dicts)

NaN means a missing data or NA, and function below is used to check these data

pd.isnull(object)
pd.notnull(object)

Every object and its index has a property name

obj.name = value
obj.index.name = value

DataFrame

Dataframe is ordered list, just like a table. Every col could be different type. dicts consist of equal-length ndarray can form a dataframe directly

in[1] data = {'1st': ['he', 'is', 'a', 'jerk'],
'2nd': ['ye','I', 'Think', 'so']
}
in[2] frame = DataFrame(data)

Out[2]:
    1st    2nd
0    he    ye
1    is      I
2     a  Think
3  jerk     so

To specify the sequence of dataframe by manually adding columns=[]

DataFrame = [data, columns=[col1, col2]]

like Series, if input data doesnot exist , it will become NA

As with get values, the sencond method is applicable,too.

frame['var']
frame.var