python - Normalizing a pandas DataFrame by row

Question

What is the most idiomatic way to normalize each row of a pandas DataFrame? Normalizing the columns is easy, so one (very ugly!) option is:

(df.T / df.T.sum()).T

Pandas broadcasting rules prevent df / df.sum(axis=1) from doing this

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18594469/normalizing-a-pandas-dataframe-by-row

Answer 1

To overcome the broadcasting issue, you can use the div method:

df.div(df.sum(axis=1), axis=0)

See pandas User Guide: Matching / broadcasting behavior