The shape property in Pandas

The shape property of a pandas Series and DataFrame returns a tuple containing the number of rows and columns in the format: (nrows, ncolumns).

Note: As shape is a property so do not use parentheses with it.

Syntax a) DataFrame.shape
b) Series.shape

Example: Creating a Series.

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data = [100, 200, 300, 500, 700]
newseries = pd.Series(data)
print(newseries)  

The output of the above code is a pandas’ series. Now we want to see the shape of the series.

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The output of the above code is (5,) as shown in the image below.

As series is a single dimensional data so that is why we are not able to see the number of columns in the output.

Example: Let’s use a dataframe and get its shape.

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mydata=pd.read_csv("employees.csv")
print(mydata.shape)

The output of the above code is (9,5).