to_list as alias for tolist

Author: retkowski

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst

@@ -1071,6 +1071,7 @@ Other API Changes
 - :meth:`Index.hasnans` and :meth:`Series.hasnans` now always return a python boolean. Previously, a python or a numpy boolean could be returned, depending on circumstances (:issue:`23294`).
 - The order of the arguments of :func:`DataFrame.to_html` and :func:`DataFrame.to_string` is rearranged to be consistent with each other. (:issue:`23614`)
 - :meth:`CategoricalIndex.reindex` now raises a ``ValueError`` if the target index is non-unique and not equal to the current index. It previously only raised if the target index was not of a categorical dtype (:issue:`23963`).
+- ``Series.tolist()`` and ``Index.tolist()`` now have an alias ``to_list`` (:issue:`8826`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.deprecations:
 

pandas/core/arrays/categorical.py

@@ -567,6 +567,8 @@ def tolist(self):
         """
         return list(self)
 
+    to_list = tolist
+
     @property
     def base(self):
         """

pandas/core/base.py

@@ -1025,6 +1025,8 @@ def tolist(self):
         else:
             return self._values.tolist()
 
+    to_list = tolist
+
     def __iter__(self):
         """
         Return an iterator of the values.