puffbird.FrameEngine.expand_col¶

FrameEngine.expand_col(col, reset_index=True, dropna=True, handle_diff=True)[source]¶

Expand a column that contain DataFrame or Series object types to create a single long-format DataFrame.

Parameters

colstr: The “data column” to expand.
reset_indexbool, optional: Whether to reset the index of the new long-format DataFrame. Defaults to True.
dropnabool, optional: Whether to drop NaNs in the “data column”. If False and NaNs exist, this will currently result in an error. Defaults to True.
handle_diffbool, optional: Handle indices across column cells, if they cannot be concatenatted, instead of throwing an error. Defaults to True.

Returns