Return multiple columns from pandas apply()

Question

I have a pandas DataFrame, df_test. It contains a column \'size\' which represents size in bytes. I\'ve calculated KB, MB, and GB using the following code:

Answer 1

Some of the current replies work fine, but I want to offer another, maybe more "pandifyed" option. This works for me with the current pandas 0.23 (not sure if it will work in previous versions):

import pandas as pd

df_test = pd.DataFrame([
  {'dir': '/Users/uname1', 'size': 994933},
  {'dir': '/Users/uname2', 'size': 109338711},
])

def sizes(s):
  a = locale.format("%.1f", s['size'] / 1024.0, grouping=True) + ' KB'
  b = locale.format("%.1f", s['size'] / 1024.0 ** 2, grouping=True) + ' MB'
  c = locale.format("%.1f", s['size'] / 1024.0 ** 3, grouping=True) + ' GB'
  return a, b, c

df_test[['size_kb', 'size_mb', 'size_gb']] = df_test.apply(sizes, axis=1, result_type="expand")

Notice that the trick is on the result_type parameter of apply, that will expand its result into a DataFrame that can be directly assign to new/old columns.