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

Strictly speaking if you want nested lists (and not a list of tuples) you can do

df.values.tolist()

as df.values is a numpy array. That will give you a list of lists as requested:

[[0.0001313652121930252, 3.5915356549999985e-05], 
 [3.5915356549999985e-05, 0.00011634321240684215]]