Pandas DataFrame to List of Lists

Question

It's easy to turn a list of lists into a pandas dataframe:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[3,4,5]])

But how do I turn df back into a list of lists?

lol = df.what_to_do_now?

print lol

# [[1,2,3],[3,4,5]]

Answer 1

1. Access the underlying array.

2.Then, call its tolist method.

>>> df = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[3,4,5]])

>>> lol = df.values.tolist()

>>> lol

[[1L, 2L, 3L], [3L, 4L, 5L]]

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