The to_dict() method sets the column names as dictionary keys so you’ll need to reshape your DataFrame slightly. Setting the ‘ID’ column as the index and then transposing the DataFrame is one way to achieve this.
to_dict() also accepts an ‘orient’ argument which you’ll need in order to output a list of values for each column. Otherwise, a dictionary of the form {index: value} will be returned for each column.
These steps can be done with the following line:
>>> df.set_index('ID').T.to_dict('list')
{'p': [1, 3, 2], 'q': [4, 3, 2], 'r': [4, 0, 9]}
In case a different dictionary format is needed, here are examples of the possible orient arguments. Consider the following simple DataFrame:
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'], 'b': [0.5, 0.25, 0.125]})
>>> df
a b
0 red 0.500
1 yellow 0.250
2 blue 0.125
Then the options are as follows.
dict – the default: column names are keys, values are dictionaries of index:data pairs
>>> df.to_dict('dict')
{'a': {0: 'red', 1: 'yellow', 2: 'blue'},
'b': {0: 0.5, 1: 0.25, 2: 0.125}}
list – keys are column names, values are lists of column data
>>> df.to_dict('list')
{'a': ['red', 'yellow', 'blue'],
'b': [0.5, 0.25, 0.125]}
series – like ‘list’, but values are Series
>>> df.to_dict('series')
{'a': 0 red
1 yellow
2 blue
Name: a, dtype: object,
'b': 0 0.500
1 0.250
2 0.125
Name: b, dtype: float64}
split – splits columns/data/index as keys with values being column names, data values by row and index labels respectively
>>> df.to_dict('split')
{'columns': ['a', 'b'],
'data': [['red', 0.5], ['yellow', 0.25], ['blue', 0.125]],
'index': [0, 1, 2]}
records – each row becomes a dictionary where key is column name and value is the data in the cell
>>> df.to_dict('records')
[{'a': 'red', 'b': 0.5},
{'a': 'yellow', 'b': 0.25},
{'a': 'blue', 'b': 0.125}]
index – like ‘records’, but a dictionary of dictionaries with keys as index labels (rather than a list)
>>> df.to_dict('index')
{0: {'a': 'red', 'b': 0.5},
1: {'a': 'yellow', 'b': 0.25},
2: {'a': 'blue', 'b': 0.125}}