x=['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle']) >>> df angles degrees circle 0 360 triangle 3 180 rectangle 4 360 Add a scalar with operator version which return the same results. >>> df + 1 angles degrees circle 1 361 triangle 4 181 rectangle 5 361 >>> df.add(1) angles degrees circle 1 361 triangle 4 181 rectangle 5 361 Divide by constant with reverse version. >>> df.div(10) angles degrees circle 0.0 36.0 triangle 0.3 18.0 rectangle 0.4 36.0 >>> df.rdiv(10) angles degrees circle inf 0.027778 triangle 3.333333 0.055556 rectangle 2.500000 0.027778 Subtract a list and Series by axis with operator version. >>> df - [1, 2] angles degrees circle -1 358 triangle 2 178 rectangle 3 358 >>> df.sub([1, 2], axis='columns') angles degrees circle -1 358 triangle 2 178 rectangle 3 358 >>> df.sub(pd.Series([1, 1, 1], index=['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle']), ... axis='index') angles degrees circle -1 359 triangle 2 179 rectangle 3 359 Multiply a dictionary by axis. >>> df.mul({{'angles': 0, 'degrees': 2}}) angles degrees circle 0 720 triangle 0 360 rectangle 0 720 >>> df.mul({{'circle': 0, 'triangle': 2, 'rectangle': 3}}, axis='index') angles degrees circle 0 0 triangle 6 360 rectangle 12 1080 Multiply a DataFrame of different shape with operator version. >>> other = pd.DataFrame({{'angles': [0, 3, 4]}}, ... index=['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle']) >>> other angles circle 0 triangle 3 rectangle 4 >>> df * other angles degrees circle 0 NaN triangle 9 NaN rectangle 16 NaN >>> df.mul(other, fill_value=0) angles degrees circle 0 0.0 triangle 9 0.0 rectangle 16 0.0 Divide by a MultiIndex by level. >>> df_multindex = pd.DataFrame({{'angles': [0, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6], ... 'degrees': [360, 180, 360, 360, 540, 720]}}, ... index=[['A', 'A', 'A', 'B', 'B', 'B'], ... ['circle', 'triangle', 'rectangle', ... 'square', 'pentagon', 'hexagon']]) >>> df_multindex angles degrees A circle 0 360 triangle 3 180 rectangle 4 360 B square 4 360 pentagon 5 540 hexagon 6 720 >>> df.div(df_multindex, level=1, fill_value=0) angles degrees A circle NaN 1.0 triangle 1.0 1.0 rectangle 1.0 1.0 B square 0.0 0.0 pentagon 0.0 0.0 hexagon 0.0 0.0 a<