Reshape of pandas series?

Question

It looks to me like a bug in pandas.Series.

a = pd.Series([1,2,3,4])
b = a.reshape(2,2)
b

b has type Series but can not be displayed, the l

Answer 1

you can directly use a.reshape((2,2)) to reshape a Series, but you can not reshape a pandas DataFrame directly, because there is no reshape function for pandas DataFrame, but you can do reshape on numpy ndarray:

1. convert DataFrame to numpy ndarray
2. do reshape
3. convert back

e.g.

a = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])
b = a.as_matrix().reshape(3,2)
a = pd.DataFrame(b)