python - Pandas convert dataframe to array of tuples

Question

I have manipulated some data using pandas and now I want to carry out a batch save back to the database. This requires me to convert the dataframe into an array of tuples, with each tuple corresponding to a "row" of the dataframe.

My DataFrame looks something like:

In [182]: data_set
Out[182]: 
  index data_date   data_1  data_2
0  14303 2012-02-17  24.75   25.03 
1  12009 2012-02-16  25.00   25.07 
2  11830 2012-02-15  24.99   25.15 
3  6274  2012-02-14  24.68   25.05 
4  2302  2012-02-13  24.62   24.77 
5  14085 2012-02-10  24.38   24.61 

I want to convert it to an array of tuples like:

[(datetime.date(2012,2,17),24.75,25.03),
(datetime.date(2012,2,16),25.00,25.07),
...etc. ]

Any suggestion on how I can efficiently do this?

Answer 1

How about:

subset = data_set[['data_date', 'data_1', 'data_2']]
tuples = [tuple(x) for x in subset.to_numpy()]

for pandas < 0.24 use

tuples = [tuple(x) for x in subset.values]