Python Pandas: Convert “.value_counts” output to dataframe

Use rename_axis for name of column from index and reset_index:

df = df.value_counts().rename_axis('unique_values').reset_index(name="counts")
print (df)
   unique_values  counts
0              2       3
1              1       2

Or if need one column DataFrame use Series.to_frame:

df = df.value_counts().rename_axis('unique_values').to_frame('counts')
print (df)
               counts
unique_values        
2                   3
1                   2