How to pivot this using pandas?

Question

I'm totally new to python/pandas so please bear with me.

I have been trying for what seems like an eternity to rearrange my dataframe (see the numbers beside in/out...). I have read several answers to what seem like similar questions on stack overflow but I can't get anything to work for me.

Initially I had a table that looked like this: intial table

I want to make it look like this (but with the actual dates and values):

company--date--date--date--date

ebay--------val-----val---val----val

amazon----val-----val---val----val

Initially I thought I could use df.pivot but then I didn't know what to put for index= because I didn't have a name for the columns. So I figured out how to give them a name using

df.columns.names = 'Company'

Now I have a table like this: table as it is now

Based on other answers I've seen on this site I tried again to use df.pivot 1.with index = 'Company' and I get KeyError: 'Company' 2.also with index = ['Company'] also get KeyError: 'Company'

Can anyone tell me what it is that I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help

Answer 1

Think you mean 'transpose' not 'pivot'. Can you please try doing the following? df1.T . Full example below from pandas.DataFrame.transpose

setup:

d1 = {'col1': [1, 2], 'col2': [3, 4]}
df1 = pd.DataFrame(data=d1)
df1

output:

   col1  col2
0     1     3
1     2     4

code:

df1.T # or df1.transpose()

output:

      0  1
col1  1  2
col2  3  4