How to get a single value as a string from pandas data frame

Question

I am querying a single value from my data frame which seems to be \'dtype: object\'. I simply want to print the value as it is with out printing the index or other information a

Answer 1

it should work simply..

>>> df
  Host Port
0    a    b
>>> df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][0]   # will choose the first index simply which is 'b'
'b'

OR, use with print which will strip off the surrounded single ticks.

>>> print(df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][0])
b

This will easier because you have just choose the desired Index even if you have Multiple values across Port columns

Example:

>>> df
  Host Port
0    a    b
1    c    c

Looking for distinct a & c based on Index:

>>> df[df['Host'] == 'a']['Port'][0]
'b'
>>> df[df['Host'] == 'c']['Port'][1]
'c'