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Creating a Series Object

Let’s create a Series from a Python list and dictionary objects.

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Create a Series from a list without an index

First, let’s create a Series from the Python list below. As you can see, we haven’t specified any index, so by default it starts at zero.

Python 3.5
import pandas as pd
l = range(1, 10)
s = pd.Series(l)
print(s)
print("------------------")
x=3
print("the index {} -> value is {}".format(x, s[x]))

A Series is created from a Python list on line 4. It’s a Series with nine values from 1 to 9, created by range(1, 9).

In the output of print(s), we can see two columns. The first column is the index number and the ...