I have a df as the following:
col1 col2
-----------
a 1b
a 1b
a 1a
b 2a
b 3f
And I want to count how many unique pairs each col1 element has: output:
(a, 2)
(b, 2)
You want to count the number if unique values on col2 after grouping on col1 -
df.groupby(['col1']).nunique()['col2']
#col1
#a 2
#b 2
If you want it in the format you mentioned, you can pass it into zip -
list(zip(df.groupby(['col1']).nunique()['col2'].index, df.groupby(['col1']).nunique()['col2'].values))
[('a', 2), ('b', 2)]
df.groupby(['col1', 'col2']).size()