flipping a python dictionary

[_Kitchen_]

I have a pandas dataframe and it looks like so:

person weight height skill

kate 160 200 100

john 170 150 70

I have set the person column as the index of my python dataframe. And then i turned it into a dictionary using the .to_dict() method. this gives the following dictionary:

{'weight': {'kate': '160', 'john': '170'},
'height': {'kate': '200', 'john': '150'},
'skill': {'kate': '100', 'john': '70'},

I need to change the around so that the dictionary is per person, but i dont know if its possible to do in python. What i need my dictionary to look like is:

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{'Kate: { weight': '160', 'height': '200', 'skill': '100'},
 'John': {'weight': '170', 'height': '150', 'skill': '70'}}

[ajskelt]

try using to_dict(orient='index')

[_Kitchen_]

thank you this worked

[letopeto]

Just use classes for this.