python - Converting Pandas Series to a List with indices preserved

Question

I have this series:

ser = pd.Series(data=[11, 22, 33, 44, 88], index=[0, 1, 2, 3, 7])
ser
0    11
1    22
2    33
3    44
7    88

I want to convert it to a list so I do the following and result is:

ser.tolist()
result: [11, 22, 33, 44, 88]

However, what I want is a list where each element is inserted at the index it has in series:

[11, 22, 33, 44, 0, 0, 0, 88]

How can I achieve this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66056196/converting-pandas-series-to-a-list-with-indices-preserved

Answer 1

Try with reindex

ser.reindex(range(ser.index.max()+1),fill_value=0).tolist()
Out[13]: [11, 22, 33, 44, 0, 0, 0, 88]