An Object of Objects?

[cebb]

Bare with me, relatively new to playing with python, I'm trying to backwards engineer an object so that I can recreate it slightly differently. I'm trying to understand what creates this structure.

The object in the code I'm working with is called s

So... if I type

1	print type(s)

I get the following results:

Output:
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>
<class 'pandas.core.series.Series'>

What is this? it isn't a list... it isn't a tuple...
What kind of object returns multiple objects?
Added points for how do I make one?

I am working with a pandas dataframe iterating through the columns and outputting them to series. I need all of those series as one (nested?) object matching what I'm seeing in s

[mcmxl22]

You need to post the code that defines s. It appears s is a class with 14 instances.

[cebb]

s represents self in the apply found here:

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def background_gradient(s, m, M, cmap='RdBu'):     print type(s)     if M > -1*m:       max = M     else: max = -1*m     rng = max     norm = colors.Normalize(-2*max,                             2*max)     normed = norm(s.values)     c = [colors.rgb2hex(x) for x in plt.cm.get_cmap(cmap)(normed)]     return ['background-color: %s' % color for color in c]   ...     counts_table.style.applymap(color_negative_red)\    .apply(background_gradient,                cmap='RdBu',                m=df['Dataframe Value'].min().min(),                M=df['Dataframe Value'].max().max()                )\    .highlight_null(null_color='#F4F6F8')

I thought it may be a class of some sort. I've never had to create a class, but when I started playing with it, I couldn't seem to find a way that print class would give the desired outcome; at best I would need to use print class.variable but this leads to having to call each variable independently, where I need to be able to get them all at once. However you say the class has instances, which sounds different than nested objects.

[cebb]

I forgot my libraries:

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import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import colors

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Okay, here's the full code and the context of what I'm trying to do:

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import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import colors   def background_gradient(s, m, M, cmap='RdBu'):     if M > -1*m:       max = M     else: max = -1*m     rng = max     norm = colors.Normalize(-2*max,                             2*max)     normed = norm(s.values)     c = [colors.rgb2hex(x) for x in plt.cm.get_cmap(cmap)(normed)]     return ['background-color: %s' % color for color in c]       def color_negative_red(val):     color = 'black'     if val < 0: color = '#BF0711'     elif val >= 0: color = '#212B36'     else: color = '#DFE3E8'     return 'color: %s' % color       df = datasets["Topic Counts and AVG Deviations"] counts_table = pd.pivot_table(df, values='count', index=['ticket about tag'],columns=['datestamp'], aggfunc=np.sum) deviation_table =  pd.pivot_table(df, values='AVG Deviation', index=['ticket about tag'],columns=['datestamp'], aggfunc=np.sum)   counts_table.style.applymap(color_negative_red)\    .apply(background_gradient,                cmap='RdBu',                m=df['AVG Deviation'].min().min(),                M=df['AVG Deviation'].max().max()                )\    .highlight_null(null_color='#F4F6F8')

When creating the output heatmap, the color of the table cell is based on the value of the cell. What I wanted to do was to rather than have it based on the 'count' value which is numerically displayed, I wanted to use the 'AVG deviation' value to define the cell coloring.

Being that the apply function seems to do something to the 'self' to turn it into a series, I thought that if I could recreate the series from the data in the deviation_table, I could substitute 's' in the background_gradients with my manually created series.

However, with the way type(s) returns multiple series objects and the fact that I can't figure out how to do this; I'm open to other suggestions on how to replace those values for the background coloring only, while still displaying the numeric 'count' value in the cell.

I hope that makes sense.

[cebb]

I've realized the error in my ways. Ignore all of the above.

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To give more explanation, I was thinking it was somehow importing all of the class objects in s once, not iterating through. :embarassed: