Introduction Introduction In Python, you can use the pandas library to work with tabular data, and the core data type in pandas is the DataFrame. Sometimes, when working with DataFrame data, you may need to convert rows to columns or columns to rows. Here is a simple example demonstrating how to achieve this using the pandas library. data Create Table First, let’s create a new example DataFrame. import pandas as pd

# create a new DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'name': ['John', 'Mary', 'Peter'],
    'math': [80, 90, 70],
    'english': [70, 85, 90],
    'science': [75, 95, 80]
})

print(df)

# output:
    name  math  english  science
0   John    80       70       75
1   Mary    90       85       95
2  Peter    70       90       80 import pandas as pd

# create a new DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'name': ['John', 'Mary', 'Peter'],
    'math': [80, 90, 70],
    'english': [70, 85, 90],
    'science': [75, 95, 80]
})

print(df)

# output:
    name  math  english  science
0   John    80       70       75
1   Mary    90       85       95
2  Peter    70       90       80 Convert Rows to Columns # Use the melt function to convert rows to columns
df_melt = pd.melt(df, id_vars=['name'], var_name='subject', value_name='score')

print(df_melt) # Use the melt function to convert rows to columns
df_melt = pd.melt(df, id_vars=['name'], var_name='subject', value_name='score')

print(df_melt) In the code above, we simply use the melt function to transform each student's subject grades into a column, which gives us the following output. melt name  subject  score
0   John     math     80
1   Mary     math     90
2  Peter     math     70
3   John  english     70
4   Mary  english     85
5  Peter  english     90
6   John  science     75
7   Mary  science     95
8  Peter  science     80 name  subject  score
0   John     math     80
1   Mary     math     90
2  Peter     math     70
3   John  english     70
4   Mary  english     85
5  Peter  english     90
6   John  science     75
7   Mary  science     95
8  Peter  science     80 Convert Columns to Rows Column-to-row transformation, also known as data unpivoting, can be achieved using the pivot function in the pandas library. Here is an example code: pivot # Use the pivot function to pivot rows to columns.
df_pivot = df_meld.pivot(index='name', columns='subject', values='score')
print(df_pivot) # Use the pivot function to pivot rows to columns.
df_pivot = df_meld.pivot(index='name', columns='subject', values='score')
print(df_pivot) subject  english  math  science
name
John          70    80       75
Mary          85    90       95
Peter         90    70       80 subject  english  math  science
name
John          70    80       75
Mary          85    90       95
Peter         90    70       80

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