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# pandas.Series.apply

`Series.``apply`(func, convert_dtype=True, args=(), **kwds)

  Invoke function on values of Series. Can be ufunc (a NumPy function that applies to the entire Series) or a Python function that only works on single values

  Parameters : | func : function convert_dtype : boolean, default True Try to find better dtype for elementwise function results. If False, leave as dtype=object args : tuple Positional arguments to pass to function in addition to the value Additional keyword arguments will be passed as keywords to the function
  Returns : | y : Series or DataFrame if func returns a Series

  See also

  `Series.map`
    For element-wise operations

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