I tried:
x=pandas.DataFrame(...)
s = x.take([0], axis=1)
And s
gets a DataFrame, not a Series.
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'x' : [1, 2, 3, 4], 'y' : [4, 5, 6, 7]})
>>> df
x y
0 1 4
1 2 5
2 3 6
3 4 7
>>> s = df.ix[:,0]
>>> type(s)
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
>>>
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UPDATE
If you're reading this after June 2017, ix
has been deprecated in pandas 0.20.2, so don't use it. Use loc
or iloc
instead. See comments and other answers to this question.