quickest way to swap index with values

Question:

consider the pd.Series s

s = pd.Series(list('abcdefghij'), list('ABCDEFGHIJ'))
s

A    a
B    b
C    c
D    d
E    e
F    f
G    g
H    h
I    i
J    j
dtype: object

What is the quickest way to swap index and values and get the following

a    A
b    B
c    C
d    D
e    E
f    F
g    G
h    H
i    I
j    J
dtype: object
Asked By: piRSquared

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Answers:

One posible solution is swap keys and values by:

s1 = pd.Series(dict((v,k) for k,v in s.iteritems()))
print (s1)
a    A
b    B
c    C
d    D
e    E
f    F
g    G
h    H
i    I
j    J
dtype: object

Another the fastest:

print (pd.Series(s.index.values, index=s ))
a    A
b    B
c    C
d    D
e    E
f    F
g    G
h    H
i    I
j    J
dtype: object

Timings:

In [63]: %timeit pd.Series(dict((v,k) for k,v in s.iteritems()))
The slowest run took 6.55 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached.
10000 loops, best of 3: 146 µs per loop

In [71]: %timeit (pd.Series(s.index.values, index=s ))
The slowest run took 7.42 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached.
10000 loops, best of 3: 102 µs per loop

If length of Series is 1M:

s = pd.Series(list('abcdefghij'), list('ABCDEFGHIJ'))
s = pd.concat([s]*1000000).reset_index(drop=True)
print (s)

In [72]: %timeit (pd.Series(s.index, index=s ))
10000 loops, best of 3: 106 µs per loop

In [229]: %timeit pd.Series(dict((v,k) for k,v in s.iteritems()))
1 loop, best of 3: 1.77 s per loop

In [230]: %timeit (pd.Series(s.index, index=s ))
10 loops, best of 3: 130 ms per loop

In [231]: %timeit (pd.Series(s.index.values, index=s ))
10 loops, best of 3: 26.5 ms per loop
Answered By: jezrael
a2b = my_df
b2a = pd.Series(data = a2b.index, index = a2b.values)
Answered By: Hunaphu

If the series and index have names and you want to swap them as well:

srs_1 = pd.Series(list('ABC'), list('abc'), name='upper').rename_axis('lower')
# lower
# a    A
# b    B
# c    C
# Name: upper, dtype: object

srs_2 = pd.Series(srs_1.index, index=srs_1)
# upper
# A    a
# B    b
# C    c
# Name: lower, dtype: object
Answered By: Dmitriy Work
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