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

My naive approach would be using iteritems with 'll' as a list of lists and l as a single list.

df = DataFrame({'one':[1,1], 'two':[2,1], 'three':[3,1], 'four':[3,1] })

ll = []

for idx,row in df.iteritems():
    l = row.values.tolist()
    l.insert(0,idx)
    ll.append(l)