如何将 append 从 dataframe 到列表？

Question

I have a dataframe called pop_emoj that has two columns (one for the emoji, and one for the emoji count) as seen below.

☕    585
🌭    193
🌮    186
🌯     85
🌰     53
🌶    124
🌽    138
🍄     46
🍅    170
🍆    506

I have sorted the df based on the counts in descending order as seen below.

emoji_updated = pop_emoj.head(105).sort_values(ascending=False)
🍻    1809
🎂    1481
🍔    1382
🍾    1078
🥂    1028

And I'm trying to use the top n emojis to append to a new list called top_list, but I am getting stuck. Here is my code so far.

def top_number_of_emojis(n):
    
    top_list = []
    top_list = emoji_updated[0].tolist()
    
    return top_list

I'm wanting to take all of column 1 (the emojis) and append them to my list (top_number_of_emojis). The output should look like this:

top_number_of_emojis(1) == ['🍻']
top_number_of_emojis(2) == ['🍻', '🎂']
top_number_of_emojis(3) == ['🍻', '🎂', '🍔']

Answer 1

if you already got the top 5 emojis, you just need to save them to a list. An option for that is iterrows.

top_list = []

for id, emoji in emoji_updated.iterrows():
    top_list.append(emoji)