how to create single dictionary from pandas Dataframe?

Question

I have a dataframe which looks like this:

     name  value
0  user_x     34
1  user_y     23

I need to create a single dictionary from the above dataframe as follows:

dict = {"user_x": 34, "user_y": 23}

I tried the code below. Let's say I have a DataFrame f:

f.to_dict(orient='dict')  with output as:
{'value': {0: 34, 1: 23}, 'name': {0: 'user_x', 1: 'user_y'}}

f.to_dict(orient='dict')  with output as:
{'value': {0: 34, 1: 23}, 'name': {0: 'user_x', 1: 'user_y'}}

dict = {"user_x": 34, "user_y": 23, ....}

Answer 1

Given the following data:

data = {'name' :["user_x", 'user_y'], 'value': [34,23]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

You can use a dictionary comprehension to get the exact output you want.

output_dict = {x:y for x,y in df.values}
print(output_dict)

{'user_y': 23, 'user_x': 34}