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Aschharwood
Aschharwood

Reputation: 391

NameError: name 'Series' is not defined

I'm new to coding, currently trying the Udacity Data Science intro course. Trying to recreate an example in a lecture.

Here's the code: 

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

d = {
    'name': Series(['Braund', 'Cummings', 'Heikkinen', 'Allen'], index=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']), 
    'age': Series([22, 38, 26, 35], index=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']),
    'fare': Series([7.25, 71.83, 8.05], index=['a', 'b', 'd']),
    'survived?': Series([False, True, True, False], index['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
}
df = DataFrame(d)
print df

Here's my error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dataframe.py", line 4, in <module>
    d = {'name': Series(['Braund', 'Cummings', 'Heikkinen', 'Allen'],
NameError: name 'Series' is not defined
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I'm saving as a .py file and running in terminal.

Your help and guidance is much appreciated!

Upvotes: 11

Views: 31514

Answers (2)

leerssej
leerssej

Reputation: 14988

Alternatively, you may import the functions directly into your main namespace. 

from pandas import Series, DataFrame

then you may skip prepending pd. to Series() and the DataFrame function calls every time you call them. In other words, you could run your original code exactly as you had it written.

Upvotes: 7

Łukasz Rogalski
Łukasz Rogalski

Reputation: 23233

You've imported your module as namespace. Classes you are trying to use are not in your local namespace, but in the namespace of imported module.

Simply refer to a correct namespace - use pd.__WHAT_YOU_WANT__:

import pandas as pd

d = {'name': pd.Series(['Braund', 'Cummings', 'Heikkinen', 'Allen'],
index = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']), 'age': pd.Series([22, 38, 26, 35], 
index = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']), 'fare': pd.Series([7.25, 71.83, 8.05], index = ['a', 'b', 'd']),
'survived?': pd.Series([False, True, True, False], index['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])}


df = pd.DataFrame(d)

print df

Upvotes: 17

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