Trying to save a number in a new dataframe but nothing happens (Pandas)

Question

I have a pandas df like this

a column
_____
NaN
e
NaN
b

I want to save the count of a non-nan values in a new dataframe:

df_ new=pd.DataFrame()

df_new['column1']= int(df["a column"].count())

My expected output is:

df_new

column1
2

but nothing happens. Why?

user_14527886 · Answer

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
    'col1':[np.nan,'e',np.nan,'b']
    }
)
df

df2 = df.count()
df2

It's series. We can check the type of df2

type(df2)

You could turn it into DataFrame by to_frame()

df3 = df.count().to_frame()
df3

type(df3)