polars.LazyFrame.melt#

Unpivot a DataFrame from wide to long format.

Optionally leaves identifiers set.

This function is useful to massage a DataFrame into a format where one or more columns are identifier variables (id_vars) while all other columns, considered measured variables (value_vars), are “unpivoted” to the row axis leaving just two non-identifier columns, ‘variable’ and ‘value’.

Parameters:

id_vars: Column(s) or selector(s) to use as identifier variables.
value_vars: Column(s) or selector(s) to use as values variables; if value_vars is empty all columns that are not in id_vars will be used.
variable_name: Name to give to the variable column. Defaults to “variable”
value_name: Name to give to the value column. Defaults to “value”
streamable: Allow this node to run in the streaming engine. If this runs in streaming, the output of the melt operation will not have a stable ordering.

Examples

>>> lf = pl.LazyFrame(
...     {
...         "a": ["x", "y", "z"],
...         "b": [1, 3, 5],
...         "c": [2, 4, 6],
...     }
... )
>>> import polars.selectors as cs
>>> lf.melt(id_vars="a", value_vars=cs.numeric()).collect()
shape: (6, 3)
┌─────┬──────────┬───────┐
│ a   ┆ variable ┆ value │
│ --- ┆ ---      ┆ ---   │
│ str ┆ str      ┆ i64   │
╞═════╪══════════╪═══════╡
│ x   ┆ b        ┆ 1     │
│ y   ┆ b        ┆ 3     │
│ z   ┆ b        ┆ 5     │
│ x   ┆ c        ┆ 2     │
│ y   ┆ c        ┆ 4     │
│ z   ┆ c        ┆ 6     │
└─────┴──────────┴───────┘