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How to check every pandas series value is unique

I know how to count the number of unique values in pandas series (one column in pandas dataframe).

pandas.Series.value_counts

But how do I check if they are all unique? Should I just compare value_counts with its length?

10 months ago · Santiago Trujillo
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IIUC, pd.Series.is_unique

pd.Series([1, 2, 3]).is_unique
True

And

pd.Series([1, 2, 2]).is_unique
False
10 months ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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You can use nunique

pd.Series([1, 2, 3]).nunique()==len(pd.Series([1, 2, 3]))
Out[62]: True
10 months ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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pd.Series([1,2,3,np.nan,np.nan]).is_unique

> False

It will give False for this which it should not.

10 months ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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