如何将一列中的所有列表编译为一个唯一列表

Question

如何将所有列表（在“ val”列中）组合成唯一列表（集合），例如[val1, val2, val33, val9, val6, val7]？

我可以使用以下代码解决此问题。我想知道是否有一种更简单的方法可以从列中获取所有唯一值而又不迭代数据帧行？

def_contributors=[]
for index, row in df.iterrows():
    contri = ast.literal_eval(row['val'])
    def_contributors.extend(contri)
def_contributors = list(set(def_contributors))

Answer 1

导出Series到嵌套lists然后应用于set拼合列表的另一种解决方案：

df = pd.DataFrame({'id':['a','b', 'c'], 'val':[['val1','val2'],
                                               ['val33','val9','val6'],
                                               ['val2','val6','val7']]})

print (df)
  id                  val
0  a         [val1, val2]
1  b  [val33, val9, val6]
2  c   [val2, val6, val7]

print (type(df.val.ix[0]))
<class 'list'>

print (df.val.tolist())
[['val1', 'val2'], ['val33', 'val9', 'val6'], ['val2', 'val6', 'val7']]

print (list(set([a for b in df.val.tolist() for a in b])))
['val7', 'val1', 'val6', 'val33', 'val2', 'val9']

时间 ：

df = pd.concat([df]*1000).reset_index(drop=True)

In [307]: %timeit (df['val'].apply(pd.Series).stack().unique()).tolist()
1 loop, best of 3: 410 ms per loop

In [355]: %timeit (pd.Series(sum(df.val.tolist(),[])).unique().tolist())
10 loops, best of 3: 31.9 ms per loop

In [308]: %timeit np.unique(np.hstack(df.val)).tolist()
100 loops, best of 3: 10.7 ms per loop

In [309]: %timeit (list(set([a for b in df.val.tolist() for a in b])))
1000 loops, best of 3: 558 µs per loop

如果类型不是list，则string使用str.strip和str.split：

df = pd.DataFrame({'id':['a','b', 'c'], 'val':["[val1,val2]",
                                               "[val33,val9,val6]",
                                               "[val2,val6,val7]"]})

print (df)
  id                val
0  a        [val1,val2]
1  b  [val33,val9,val6]
2  c   [val2,val6,val7]

print (type(df.val.ix[0]))
<class 'str'>

print (df.val.str.strip('[]').str.split(','))
0           [val1, val2]
1    [val33, val9, val6]
2     [val2, val6, val7]
Name: val, dtype: object

print (list(set([a for b in df.val.str.strip('[]').str.split(',') for a in b])))
['val7', 'val1', 'val6', 'val33', 'val2', 'val9']