Python | Pandas Series.tolist()

Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric Python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.

Pandas tolist() is used to convert a series to list. Initially the series is of type pandas.core.series.Series and applying tolist() method, it is converted to list data type.

Syntax: Series.tolist()

Return type: Converted series into List

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In the following examples, the data frame used contains data of some NBA players. The image of data frame before any operations is attached below.

Example:
In this example, the data type of Name column is stored in a variable. After that it is converted using tolist() method and again data type is stored and printed.

# importing pandas module
import pandas as pd

# importing regex module
import re

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/nba.csv")

# removing null values to avoid errors
data.dropna(inplace = True)

# storing dtype before operation
dtype_before = type(data["Salary"])

# converting to list
salary_list = data["Salary"].tolist()

# storing dtype after operation
dtype_after = type(salary_list)

# printing dtype
print("Data type before converting = {}\nData type after converting = {}".format(dtype_before, dtype_after))

# displaying list
salary_list

Output:
As shown in the output image, the data type was converted from Series to List. The output of salary_list was in list format.