在Pandas DataFrame上使用float_format调用to_string

时间:2015-12-04 20:40:19

标签: python pandas

使用pandas DataFrame时,我可以在to_string(float_format='%.1f')上执行DataFrame。但是,当将相同的方法应用于df.describe()时,它失败了。

使用以下代码可以解释该问题。

>>> df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2, 'March'],[5, 6, 'Dec'],[3, 4, 'April'], [0, 1, 'March']], columns=['a','b','m']) 
>>> df
   a  b      m
0  1  2  March
1  5  6    Dec
2  3  4  April
3  0  1  March
>>> df.to_string(float_format='%.1f')
u'   a  b      m\n0  1  2  March\n1  5  6    Dec\n2  3  4  April\n3  0  1  March'
>>> df.describe().to_string(float_format='%.1f')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 1343, in to_string
    formatter.to_string()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/format.py", line 511, in to_string
    strcols = self._to_str_columns()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/format.py", line 439, in _to_str_columns
    fmt_values = self._format_col(i)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/format.py", line 693, in _format_col
    space=self.col_space
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/format.py", line 1930, in format_array
    return fmt_obj.get_result()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/format.py", line 1946, in get_result
    fmt_values = self._format_strings()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/format.py", line 2022, in _format_strings
    fmt_values = [self.formatter(x) for x in self.values]
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

它是你第一次工作,因为你的类型都不是浮动的。您可以使用df.dtypes检查:

In [37]: df.dtypes
Out[37]: 
a     int64
b     int64
m    object
dtype: object

来自docs

  

float_format 单参数功能,可选
     formatter函数,如果它们是浮点数,则应用于列的元素,默认为None。此函数的结果必须是unicode字符串。

所以你需要传递一个函数而不是字符串:

df.describe().to_string(float_format=lambda x: '%.1f' % x)

.format

df.describe().to_string(float_format=lambda x: "{:.1f}".format(x))