How to generate a list from a pandas DataFrame with the column name and column values?

Question

I have a pandas dataframe object that looks like this:

   one  two  three  four  five
0    1    2      3     4     5
1    1    1      1     1     1

Answer 1

Simplest way is probably list(dt.T.itertuples()) (where dt is your dataframe). This generates a list of tuples.