How to check whether a pandas DataFrame is empty

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How to check whether a pandas DataFrame is empty? In my case I want to print some message in terminal if the DataFrame is empty.
Apr 23, 2020 in Python by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

I use the len function. It's much faster than empty. len(df.index) is even faster.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10000, 4), columns=list('ABCD'))

def empty(df):
    return df.empty

def lenz(df):
    return len(df) == 0

def lenzi(df):
    return len(df.index) == 0

'''
%timeit empty(df)
%timeit lenz(df)
%timeit lenzi(df)

10000 loops, best of 3: 13.9 µs per loop
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.34 µs per loop
1000000 loops, best of 3: 695 ns per loop

len on index seems to be faster
'''

Hope this works!!

Thank You!!

answered Apr 23, 2020 by Niroj
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