pydata/pandas — pull request #4936 by tshauck (2013-09-22 16:11:12+00:00)
Title: ENH: Add 'records' outtype to to_dict method.

`to_json` has a records type that turns a DataFrame into a

[{'a': 1, 'b': 3}, {'a': 2, 'b': 4}]

records json string. It'd be nice if you could do a similar thing but not have to go `json.loads`.