Placing every value in its percentile in Pandas

Question

Consider a Series with the following percentiles:

> df[\'col_1\'].describe(percentiles=np.linspace(0, 1, 20))

count      13859.000000
mean         421.77         


        

Answer 1

df2 = pd.DataFrame(range(1000))
df2.columns = ['a1']
df2['percentile'] = pd.qcut(df2.a1,100, labels=False)

Or leave out labels to see the range

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Note that in Python 3, with Pandas 0.16.2 (latest version as of today), you need to use list(range(1000)) instead of range(1000) for the above to work.