How to loop over grouped Pandas dataframe?

DataFrame:

  c_os_family_ss c_os_major_is l_customer_id_i
0      Windows 7                         90418
1      Windows 7                         90418
2      Windows 7                         90418

Code:

print df
for name, group in df.groupby('l_customer_id_i').agg(lambda x: ','.join(x)):
    print name
    print group

I’m trying to just loop over the aggregated data, but I get the error:

ValueError: too many values to unpack

@EdChum, here’s the expected output:

                                                    c_os_family_ss  
l_customer_id_i
131572           Windows 7,Windows 7,Windows 7,Windows 7,Window...
135467           Windows 7,Windows 7,Windows 7,Windows 7,Window...

                                                     c_os_major_is
l_customer_id_i
131572           ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...
135467           ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...

The output is not the problem, I wish to loop over every group.

Answer

df.groupby('l_customer_id_i').agg(lambda x: ','.join(x)) does already return a dataframe, so you cannot loop over the groups anymore.

In general:

• df.groupby(...) returns a GroupBy object (a DataFrameGroupBy or SeriesGroupBy), and with this, you can iterate through the groups (as explained in the docs here). You can do something like:

  grouped = df.groupby('A')
  
  for name, group in grouped:
      ...
  

• When you apply a function on the groupby, in your example df.groupby(...).agg(...) (but this can also be transform, apply, mean, …), you combine the result of applying the function to the different groups together in one dataframe (the apply and combine step of the ‘split-apply-combine’ paradigm of groupby). So the result of this will always be again a DataFrame (or a Series depending on the applied function).