Convert Python dict into a dataframe

Question

I have a Python dictionary like the following:

{u\'2012-06-08\': 388,
 u\'2012-06-09\': 388,
 u\'2012-06-10\': 388,
 u\'2012-06-11\': 389,
 u\'2012-06-12\':          


        

Answer 1

As explained on another answer using pandas.DataFrame() directly here will not act as you think.

What you can do is use pandas.DataFrame.from_dict with orient='index':

In[7]: pandas.DataFrame.from_dict({u'2012-06-08': 388,
 u'2012-06-09': 388,
 u'2012-06-10': 388,
 u'2012-06-11': 389,
 u'2012-06-12': 389,
 .....
 u'2012-07-05': 392,
 u'2012-07-06': 392}, orient='index', columns=['foo'])
Out[7]: 
            foo
2012-06-08  388
2012-06-09  388
2012-06-10  388
2012-06-11  389
2012-06-12  389
........
2012-07-05  392
2012-07-06  392