Iterate over (column name, Series) pairs.
Iterates over the DataFrame columns, returning a tuple with the column name and the content as a Series.
The column names for the DataFrame being iterated over.
The column entries belonging to each label, as a Series.
See also
DataFrame.iterrowsIterate over DataFrame rows as (index, Series) pairs.
DataFrame.itertuplesIterate over DataFrame rows as namedtuples of the values.
Examples
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'species': ['bear', 'bear', 'marsupial'],
... 'population': [1864, 22000, 80000]},
... index=['panda', 'polar', 'koala'])
>>> df
species population
panda bear 1864
polar bear 22000
koala marsupial 80000
>>> for label, content in df.items():
... print(f'label: {label}')
... print(f'content: {content}', sep='\n')
...
label: species
content:
panda bear
polar bear
koala marsupial
Name: species, dtype: object
label: population
content:
panda 1864
polar 22000
koala 80000
Name: population, dtype: int64
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