How do I access the corresponding groupby dataframe in a groupby object by the key?
With the following groupby:
rand = np.random.RandomState(1)
df = pd.DataFrame({'A': ['foo', 'bar'] * 3,
'B': rand.randn(6),
'C': rand.randint(0, 20, 6)})
gb = df.groupby(['A'])
I can iterate through it to get the keys and groups:
In [11]: for k, gp in gb:
print 'key=' + str(k)
print gp
key=bar
A B C
1 bar -0.611756 18
3 bar -1.072969 10
5 bar -2.301539 18
key=foo
A B C
0 foo 1.624345 5
2 foo -0.528172 11
4 foo 0.865408 14
I would like to be able to access a group by its key:
In [12]: gb['foo']
Out[12]:
A B C
0 foo 1.624345 5
2 foo -0.528172 11
4 foo 0.865408 14
But when I try doing that with gb[('foo',)] I get this weird pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy object thing which doesn’t seem to have any methods that correspond to the DataFrame I want.
The best I could think of is:
In [13]: def gb_df_key(gb, key, orig_df):
ix = gb.indices[key]
return orig_df.ix[ix]
gb_df_key(gb, 'foo', df)
Out[13]:
A B C
0 foo 1.624345 5
2 foo -0.528172 11
4 foo 0.865408 14
but this is kind of nasty, considering how nice pandas usually is at these things.
What’s the built-in way of doing this?
