How to get the first column of a pandas DataFrame as a Series?

Question

I tried:

x=pandas.DataFrame(...)
s = x.take([0], axis=1)

And s gets a DataFrame, not a Series.

Answer 1

This works great when you want to load a series from a csv file

x = pd.read_csv('x.csv', index_col=False, names=['x'],header=None).iloc[:,0]
print(type(x))
print(x.head(10))



0    110.96
1    119.40
2    135.89
3    152.32
4    192.91
5    177.20
6    181.16
7    177.30
8    200.13
9    235.41
Name: x, dtype: float64