python dictionary to pandas dataframe returns empty dataframe

Question

I have a dictionary created run-time in my program which needs to be converted to a pandas dataframe.

dictio={'a':'abc','b':'zyx','c':'prq'} df=pd.Dataframe(dictio)

The above code returns me an empty dataframe with columns created. Can anyone point to what am i missing out?

Answer 1

#use from_dict and set orient to index and then transpose in the end.
pd.DataFrame.from_dict(dictio,orient='index').T
Out[263]: 
     a    c    b
0  abc  prq  zyx