Pandas append returns DF with NaN values - python-3.x

Question

I'm appending data from a list to pandas df. I keep getting NaN in my entries.
Based on what I've read I think I might have to mention the data type for each column in my code.
dumps = [];features_df = pd.DataFrame()
for i in range (int(len(ids)/50)):
dumps = sp.audio_features(ids[i*50:50*(i+1)])
for i in range (len(dumps)):
print(list(dumps[0].values()))
features_df = features_df.append(list(dumps[0].values()), ignore_index = True)
Expected results, something like-
[0.833, 0.539, 11, -7.399, 0, 0.178, 0.163, 2.1e-06, 0.101, 0.385, 99.947, 'audio_features', '6MWtB6iiXyIwun0YzU6DFP', 'spotify:track:6MWtB6iiXyIwun0YzU6DFP', 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/6MWtB6iiXyIwun0YzU6DFP', 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-analysis/6MWtB6iiXyIwun0YzU6DFP', 149520, 4]
for one row.
Actual-
danceability energy ... duration_ms time_signature
0 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN
1 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN
2 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN
3 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN
4 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN
5 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN
For all rows

Answer 1

append() strategy in a tight loop isn't a great way to do this. Rather, you can construct an empty DataFrame and then use loc to specify an insertion point. The DataFrame index should be used.
For example:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(data=[], columns=['n'])
for i in range(100):
df.loc[i] = i
print(df)
time python3 append_df.py
n
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
real 0m13.178s
user 0m12.287s
sys 0m0.617s
https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.append.html
Iteratively appending rows to a DataFrame can be more computationally intensive than a single concatenate. A better solution is to append those rows to a list and then concatenate the list with the original DataFrame all at once.