Convert a Pandas DataFrame to a dictionary

Question

I have a DataFrame with four columns. I want to convert this DataFrame to a python dictionary. I want the elements of first column be keys and the elements of o

Answer 1

should a dictionary like:

{'red': '0.500', 'yellow': '0.250, 'blue': '0.125'}

be required out of a dataframe like:

        a      b
0     red  0.500
1  yellow  0.250
2    blue  0.125

simplest way would be to do:

dict(df.values.tolist())

working snippet below:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'], 'b': [0.5, 0.25, 0.125]})
dict(df.values.tolist())