How to wipe-out square brackets from dictionary

Question

I create dictionary:

df2 = df[['ident','municipality']]
df2.set_index('ident').T.to_dict('list')

In the dictionary I have square brackets, how to throw it out? How to wipe-out square brackets from dictionary?

die square brackets die! oh wait.. those are lists. Just access the 0th element of each value and make a new dict. — Paritosh Singh, May 16 '19 at 08:09
I don't understand you, I have thousands such positions. I cant help do it during the weeks. — Wojciech Moszczyński, May 16 '19 at 08:12
can you provide a sample input to work with instead of an image? — Paritosh Singh, May 16 '19 at 08:12
[MCVE] makes it easier for answerers to verify your requirements, and provide clearer answers without guesswork. Avoid posting images, and try to provide MCVE whenever you need help with code. Take a look at [how to ask](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) and a more specific [post for pandas mcve](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20109391/how-to-make-good-reproducible-pandas-examples) — Paritosh Singh, May 16 '19 at 08:19

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '19 at 08:15

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I beleive you need create Series by DataFrame.set_index with select column after and convert to dict:

d = df.set_index('ident')['municipality'].to_dict()

answered May 16 '19 at 08:15

jezrael

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