How to get rows/index names in Pandas dataframe

While analyzing the real datasets which are often very huge in size, we might need to get the rows or index names in order to perform some certain operations.

Let’s discuss how to get row names in Pandas dataframe.

First, let’s create a simple dataframe with nba.csv

Python3

# Import pandas package
import pandas as pd

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/nba.csv")

# calling head() method
# storing in new variable
data_top = data.head(10)

# display
data_top

Now let’s try to get the row name from above dataset.

Method #1: Simply iterate over indices

Python3

# Import pandas package
import pandas as pd

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# calling head() method
# storing in new variable
data_top = data.head()

# iterating the columns
for row in data_top.index:
    print(row, end = " ")

Output:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

Method #2: Using rows with dataframe object

Python3

# Import pandas package
import pandas as pd

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# calling head() method
# storing in new variable
data_top = data.head()

# list(data_top) or
list(data_top.index)

Output:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Method #3: index.values method returns an array of index.

Python3

# Import pandas package
import pandas as pd

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# calling head() method
# storing in new variable
data_top = data.head()

list(data_top.index.values)

Output:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Method #4: Using tolist() method with values with given the list of index.

Python3

# Import pandas package
import pandas as pd

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# calling head() method
# storing in new variable
data_top = data.head()

list(data_top.index.values.tolist())

Output:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Method #5: Count number of rows in dataframe

Since we have loaded only 10 top rows of dataframe using head() method, let’s verify total number of rows first.

Python3

# iterate the indices and print each one
for row in data.index:
    print(row, end= " ")

Output:

Now, let’s print the total count of index.

Python3

# Import pandas package
import pandas as pd

# making data frame
data = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

row_count = 0

# iterating over indices
for col in data.index:
    row_count += 1

# print the row count
print(row_count)

Output:

458