Pandas groupby result into multiple columns

Question

I have a dataframe in which I\'m looking to group and then partition the values within a group into multiple columns.

For example: say I have the following dataframe

Answer 1

Another way of doing this is to first added a "helper" column on to your data, then pivot your dataframe using the "helper" column, in the case below "ID_Count":

Using @unutbu setup:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(2016)

df = pd.DataFrame({'Group': ['A', 'C', 'B', 'A', 'C', 'C'],
                   'ID': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
                   'Value': np.random.randint(1, 100, 6)})
#Create group
grp = df.groupby('Group')

#Create helper column 
df['ID_Count'] = grp['ID'].cumcount() + 1

#Pivot dataframe using helper column and add 'Value' column to pivoted output.
df_out = df.pivot('Group','ID_Count','ID').add_prefix('ID').assign(Value = grp['Value'].sum())

Output:

ID_Count  ID1  ID2  ID3  Value
Group                         
A         1.0  4.0  NaN     77
B         3.0  NaN  NaN     84
C         2.0  5.0  6.0     86