Convert to native datatypes for Series.tolist()

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.18.2.txt

@@ -41,6 +41,33 @@ API changes
 - Non-convertible dates in an excel date column will be returned without conversion and the column will be ``object`` dtype, rather than raising an exception  (:issue:`10001`)
 
 
+Series.tolist() will now return Python types
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Series.tolist() was updated to return Python types, mimicking NumPy tolist() behaviour (:issue:`10904`)
+
+
+.. ipython:: python
+
+   s = pd.Series([1,2,3])
+   type(s.tolist()[0])
+
+Previous Behavior:
+
+.. code-block:: ipython
+
+   In [6]: s = pandas.Series([1,2,3])
+   In [7]: type(s.tolist()[0])
+   Out[7]:
+    <class 'numpy.int64'>
+
+
+New Behavior:
+
+.. ipython:: python
+
+   s = pd.Series([1,2,3])
+   type(s.tolist()[0])
 
 
 

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ def keys(self):
 
     def tolist(self):
         """ Convert Series to a nested list """
-        return list(self)
+        return list(self.asobject)
 
     def to_dict(self):
         """

pandas/tests/series/test_io.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 from pandas import Series, DataFrame
 
-from pandas.compat import StringIO, u
+from pandas.compat import StringIO, u, long
 from pandas.util.testing import (assert_series_equal, assert_almost_equal,
                                  assert_frame_equal, ensure_clean)
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
@@ -82,16 +82,6 @@ def test_to_csv_unicode_index(self):
 
         assert_series_equal(s, s2)
 
-    def test_tolist(self):
-        rs = self.ts.tolist()
-        xp = self.ts.values.tolist()
-        assert_almost_equal(rs, xp)
-
-        # datetime64
-        s = Series(self.ts.index)
-        rs = s.tolist()
-        self.assertEqual(self.ts.index[0], rs[0])
-
     def test_to_frame(self):
         self.ts.name = None
         rs = self.ts.to_frame()
@@ -174,3 +164,39 @@ class SubclassedFrame(DataFrame):
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(result, SubclassedFrame))
         expected = SubclassedFrame({'X': [1, 2, 3]})
         assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+class TestSeriesToList(TestData, tm.TestCase):
+
+    _multiprocess_can_split_ = True
+
+    def test_tolist(self):
+        rs = self.ts.tolist()
+        xp = self.ts.values.tolist()
+        assert_almost_equal(rs, xp)
+
+        # datetime64
+        s = Series(self.ts.index)
+        rs = s.tolist()
+        self.assertEqual(self.ts.index[0], rs[0])
+
+    def test_tolist_np_int(self):
+        # GH10904
+        for t in ['int8', 'int16', 'int32', 'int64']:
+            s = pd.Series([1], dtype=t)
+            self.assertIsInstance(s.tolist()[0], int)
+
+    def test_tolist_np_uint(self):
+        # GH10904
+        for t in ['uint8', 'uint16']:
+            s = pd.Series([1], dtype=t)
+            self.assertIsInstance(s.tolist()[0], int)
+        for t in ['uint32', 'uint64']:
+            s = pd.Series([1], dtype=t)
+            self.assertIsInstance(s.tolist()[0], long)
+
+    def test_tolist_np_float(self):
+        # GH10904
+        for t in ['float16', 'float32', 'float64']:
+            s = pd.Series([1], dtype=t)
+            self.assertIsInstance(s.tolist()[0], float)