python - Take multiple lists into dataframe

Question

How do I take multiple lists and put them as different columns in a python dataframe? I tried this solution but had some trouble.

Attempt 1:

• Have three lists, and zip them together and use that res = zip(lst1,lst2,lst3)
• Yields just one column

Attempt 2:

percentile_list = pd.DataFrame({'lst1Tite' : [lst1],
                                'lst2Tite' : [lst2],
                                'lst3Tite' : [lst3] }, 
                                columns=['lst1Tite','lst1Tite', 'lst1Tite'])

• yields either one row by 3 columns (the way above) or if I transpose it is 3 rows and 1 column

How do I get a 100 row (length of each independent list) by 3 column (three lists) pandas dataframe?

Answer 1

I think you're almost there, try removing the extra square brackets around the lst's (Also you don't need to specify the column names when you're creating a dataframe from a dict like this):

import pandas as pd
lst1 = range(100)
lst2 = range(100)
lst3 = range(100)
percentile_list = pd.DataFrame(
    {'lst1Title': lst1,
     'lst2Title': lst2,
     'lst3Title': lst3
    })

percentile_list
    lst1Title  lst2Title  lst3Title
0          0         0         0
1          1         1         1
2          2         2         2
3          3         3         3
4          4         4         4
5          5         5         5
6          6         6         6
...

If you need a more performant solution you can use np.column_stack rather than zip as in your first attempt, this has around a 2x speedup on the example here, however comes at bit of a cost of readability in my opinion:

import numpy as np
percentile_list = pd.DataFrame(np.column_stack([lst1, lst2, lst3]), 
                               columns=['lst1Title', 'lst2Title', 'lst3Title'])