ENH: Add Series.to_list, alias for tolist

[s-celles]

Hello,

IPython autocomplete (tab) shows

In [1]: ts.to
ts.to_clipboard  ts.to_frame      ts.to_period     ts.to_string
ts.to_csv        ts.to_hdf        ts.to_pickle     ts.to_timestamp
ts.to_dense      ts.to_json       ts.to_sparse     ts.tolist
ts.to_dict       ts.to_msgpack    ts.to_sql

maybe tolist should be named to_list
and tolist should be marked as deprecated
because it seems that other methods follow
an implicit naming convention (to_...) .

Kind regards

[jreback]

this is for compat with numpy, e.g. numpy.tolist is the standard method.

So, could add to_list to call tolist but can't change it.

But it would make things a bit more consistent. needs to be added in pandas/core/base/IndexOpsMixin (so both series/index getit)

pull-requests welcome!

[jorisvandenbossche]

+1 for adding a to_list alias (but indeed not deprecating tolist)