Learn The `tail()` Method | Fetching Data from DataFrames

The tail() method fetches the last few rows from a dataframe.

It also returns 5 rows by default. A custom number of rows can be specified using the n named parameter.

Syntax

DataFrame.tail(n=5)

Example


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import pandas as pd

# Create a simple DataFrame about a bookstore
books = pd.DataFrame({
    'Title': [
        'The Alchemist', '1984', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'The Great Gatsby',
        'Moby Dick', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'War and Peace', 'The Hobbit',
        'Crime and Punishment', 'Jane Eyre'
    ],
    'Author': [
        'Paulo Coelho', 'George Orwell', 'Harper Lee', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald',
        'Herman Melville', 'Jane Austen', 'Leo Tolstoy', 'J.R.R. Tolkien',
        'Fyodor Dostoevsky', 'Charlotte Brontë'
    ],
    'Stock': [12, 8, 15, 7, 3, 10, 5, 9, 4, 6]
})

print('Show the last 7 books in the list:')
print(books.tail(n=3))

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The tail() method fetches the last few rows from a dataframe.

It also returns 5 rows by default. A custom number of rows can be specified using the n named parameter.

Syntax

DataFrame.tail(n=5)

Example


              12345678910111213141516171819
            
import pandas as pd

# Create a simple DataFrame about a bookstore
books = pd.DataFrame({
    'Title': [
        'The Alchemist', '1984', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'The Great Gatsby',
        'Moby Dick', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'War and Peace', 'The Hobbit',
        'Crime and Punishment', 'Jane Eyre'
    ],
    'Author': [
        'Paulo Coelho', 'George Orwell', 'Harper Lee', 'F. Scott Fitzgerald',
        'Herman Melville', 'Jane Austen', 'Leo Tolstoy', 'J.R.R. Tolkien',
        'Fyodor Dostoevsky', 'Charlotte Brontë'
    ],
    'Stock': [12, 8, 15, 7, 3, 10, 5, 9, 4, 6]
})

print('Show the last 7 books in the list:')
print(books.tail(n=3))

Everything was clear?

Thanks for your feedback!

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The `tail()` Method

Syntax

Example

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The `tail()` Method

Syntax

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