Pandas DataFrame.groupby() to dictionary with multiple columns for value

Question

type(Table)
pandas.core.frame.DataFrame

Table
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Column1 Column2 Column3
0       23      1
1       5       2
1       2       3
1       19               


        

Answer 1

Customize the function you use in apply so it returns a list of lists for each group:

df.groupby('Column1')[['Column2', 'Column3']].apply(lambda g: g.values.tolist()).to_dict()
# {0: [[23, 1]], 
#  1: [[5, 2], [2, 3], [19, 5]], 
#  2: [[56, 1], [22, 2]], 
#  3: [[2, 4], [14, 5]], 
#  4: [[59, 1]], 
#  5: [[44, 1], [1, 2], [87, 3]]}

If you need a list of tuples explicitly, use list(map(tuple, ...)) to convert:

df.groupby('Column1')[['Column2', 'Column3']].apply(lambda g: list(map(tuple, g.values.tolist()))).to_dict()
# {0: [(23, 1)], 
#  1: [(5, 2), (2, 3), (19, 5)], 
#  2: [(56, 1), (22, 2)], 
#  3: [(2, 4), (14, 5)], 
#  4: [(59, 1)], 
#  5: [(44, 1), (1, 2), (87, 3)]}

Answer 2

I'd rather use defaultdict

from collections import defaultdict

d = defaultdict(list)

for row in df.values.tolist():
    d[row[0]].append(tuple(row[1:]))

dict(d)

{0: [(23, 1)],
 1: [(5, 2), (2, 3), (19, 5)],
 2: [(56, 1), (22, 2)],
 3: [(2, 4), (14, 5)],
 4: [(59, 1)],
 5: [(44, 1), (1, 2), (87, 3)]}

Answer 3

One way is to create a new tup column and then create the dictionary.

df['tup'] = list(zip(df['Column2'], df['Column3']))
df.groupby('Column1')['tup'].apply(list).to_dict()

# {0: [(23, 1)],
#  1: [(5, 2), (2, 3), (19, 5)],
#  2: [(56, 1), (22, 2)],
#  3: [(2, 4), (14, 5)],
#  4: [(59, 1)],
#  5: [(44, 1), (1, 2), (87, 3)]}

@Psidom's solution is more efficient, but if performance isn't an issue use what makes more sense to you:

df = pd.concat([df]*10000)

def jp(df):
    df['tup'] = list(zip(df['Column2'], df['Column3']))
    return df.groupby('Column1')['tup'].apply(list).to_dict()

def psi(df):
    return df.groupby('Column1')[['Column2', 'Column3']].apply(lambda g: list(map(tuple, g.values.tolist()))).to_dict()

%timeit jp(df)   # 110ms
%timeit psi(df)  # 80ms