Python | Pandas dataframe.reindex()

Last Updated : 22 Nov, 2018

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 dataframe.reindex() function conform DataFrame to new index with optional filling logic, placing NA/NaN in locations having no value in the previous index. A new object is produced unless the new index is equivalent to the current one and copy=False

Syntax: DataFrame.reindex(labels=None, index=None, columns=None, axis=None, method=None, copy=True, level=None, fill_value=nan, limit=None, tolerance=None) Parameters : labels : New labels/index to conform the axis specified by ‘axis’ to. index, columns : New labels / index to conform to. Preferably an Index object to avoid duplicating data axis : Axis to target. Can be either the axis name (‘index’, ‘columns’) or number (0, 1). method : {None, ‘backfill’/’bfill’, ‘pad’/’ffill’, ‘nearest’}, optional copy : Return a new object, even if the passed indexes are the same level : Broadcast across a level, matching Index values on the passed MultiIndex level fill_value : Fill existing missing (NaN) values, and any new element needed for successful DataFrame alignment, with this value before computation. If data in both corresponding DataFrame locations is missing the result will be missing. limit : Maximum number of consecutive elements to forward or backward fill tolerance : Maximum distance between original and new labels for inexact matches. The values of the index at the matching locations most satisfy the equation abs(index[indexer] - target) <= tolerance. Returns : reindexed : DataFrame

Example #1: Use reindex() function to reindex the dataframe. By default values in the new index that do not have corresponding records in the dataframe are assigned NaN. Note : We can fill in the missing values by passing a value to the keyword fill_value.

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# importing pandas as pd import pandas as pd  # Creating the dataframe  df = pd.DataFrame({"A":[1, 5, 3, 4, 2],                    "B":[3, 2, 4, 3, 4],                    "C":[2, 2, 7, 3, 4],                    "D":[4, 3, 6, 12, 7]},                    index =["first", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth"])  # Print the dataframe df

Let's use the dataframe.reindex() function to reindex the dataframe

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# reindexing with new index values df.reindex(["first", "dues", "trois", "fourth", "fifth"])

Output :

Notice the output, new indexes are populated with NaN values, we can fill in the missing values using the parameter, fill_value

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# filling the missing values by 100 df.reindex(["first", "dues", "trois", "fourth", "fifth"], fill_value = 100)

Output :

Example #2: Use reindex() function to reindex the column axis

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# importing pandas as pd import pandas as pd  # Creating the first dataframe  df1 = pd.DataFrame({"A":[1, 5, 3, 4, 2],                     "B":[3, 2, 4, 3, 4],                     "C":[2, 2, 7, 3, 4],                     "D":[4, 3, 6, 12, 7]})  # reindexing the column axis with # old and new index values df.reindex(columns =["A", "B", "D", "E"])

Output :

Notice, we have NaN values in the new columns after reindexing, we can take care of the missing values at the time of reindexing. By passing an argument fill_value to the function.

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# reindex the columns # fill the missing values by 25 df.reindex(columns =["A", "B", "D", "E"], fill_value = 25)

Output :