pandas.Series.repeat#

Series.repeat(repeats, axis=None)[source] #

Repeat elements of a Series.

Returns a new Series where each element of the current Series is repeated consecutively a given number of times.

Parameters:

repeatsint or array of ints

The number of repetitions for each element. This should be a non-negative integer. Repeating 0 times will return an empty Series.

axisNone

Unused. Parameter needed for compatibility with DataFrame.

Returns:

Series

Newly created Series with repeated elements.

See also

Index.repeat

Equivalent function for Index.

numpy.repeat

Similar method for numpy.ndarray.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series(['a', 'b', 'c'])
>>> s
0 a
1 b
2 c
dtype: object
>>> s.repeat(2)
0 a
0 a
1 b
1 b
2 c
2 c
dtype: object
>>> s.repeat([1, 2, 3])
0 a
1 b
1 b
2 c
2 c
2 c
dtype: object