occurs if data is a Series or a DataFrame itself. Alignment is done on Series/DataFrame inputs. If data is a list of dicts, column order follows insertion-order. index : Index or array-like Index to use for resulting frame. Will default to RangeIndex if no indexing information part of input data and no index provided. columns : Index or array-like Column labels to use for resulting frame when data does not have them, defaulting to RangeIndex(0, 1, 2, ..., n). If data contains column labels, will perform column selection instead. dtype : dtype, default None Data type to force. Only a single dtype is allowed. If None, infer. copy : bool or None, default None Copy data from inputs. For dict data, the default of None behaves like ``copy=True``. For DataFrame or 2d ndarray input, the default of None behaves like ``copy=False``. If data is a dict containing one or more Series (possibly of different dtypes), ``copy=False`` will ensure that these inputs are not copied. .. versionchanged:: 1.3.0 See Also -------- DataFrame.from_records : Constructor from tuples, also record arrays. DataFrame.from_dict : From dicts of Series, arrays, or dicts. read_csv : Read a comma-separated values (csv) file into DataFrame. read_table : Read general delimited file into DataFrame. read_clipboard : Read text from clipboard into DataFrame. Notes ----- Please reference the :ref:`User Guide ` for more information. Examples -------- Constructing DataFrame from a dictionary. >>> d = {'col1': [1, 2], 'col2': [3, 4]} >>> df = pd.DataFrame(data=d) >>> df col1 col2 0 1 3 1 2 4 Notice that the inferred dtype is int64. >>> df.dtypes col1 int64 col2 int64 dtype: object To enforce a single dtype: >>> df = pd.DataFrame(data=d, dtype=np.int8) >>> df.dtypes col1 int8 col2 int8 dtype: object Constructing DataFrame from a dictionary including Series: >>> d = {'col1': [0, 1, 2, 3], 'col2': pd.Series([2, 3], index=[2, 3])} >>> pd.DataFrame(data=d, index=[0, 1, 2, 3]) col1 col2 0 0 NaN 1 1 NaN 2 2 2.0 3 3 3.0 Constructing DataFrame from numpy ndarray: >>> df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]), ... columns=['a', 'b', 'c']) >>> df2 a b c 0 1 2 3 1 4 5 6 2 7 8 9 Constructing DataFrame from a numpy ndarray that has labeled columns: >>> data = np.array([(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9)], ... dtype=[("a", "i4"), ("b", "i4"), ("c", "i4")]) >>> df3 = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['c', 'a']) ... >>> df3 c a 0 3 1 1 6 4 2 9 7 Constructing DataFrame from dataclass: >>> from dataclasses import make_dataclass >>> Point = make_dataclass("Point", [("x", int), ("y", int)]) >>> pd.DataFrame([Point(0, 0), Point(0, 3), Point(2, 3)]) x y 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 2 3 Constructing DataFrame from Series/DataFrame: >>> ser = pd.Series([1, 2, 3], index=["a", "b", "c"]) >>> df = pd.DataFrame(data=ser, index=["a", "c"]) >>> df 0 a 1 c 3 >>> df1 = pd.DataFrame([1, 2, 3], index=["a", "b", "c"], columns=["x"]) >>> df2 = pd.DataFrame(data=df1, index=["a", "c"]) >>> df2 x a 1 c 3 Ú