Modify output from Python Pandas describe

.describe() attribute generates a Dataframe where count, std, max ... are values of the index, so according to the documentation you should use .loc to retrieve just the index values desired:

df.describe().loc[['count','max']]

Describe returns a series, so you can just select out what you want

In [6]: s = Series(np.random.rand(10))

In [7]: s
Out[7]: 
0    0.302041
1    0.353838
2    0.421416
3    0.174497
4    0.600932
5    0.871461
6    0.116874
7    0.233738
8    0.859147
9    0.145515
dtype: float64

In [8]: s.describe()
Out[8]: 
count    10.000000
mean      0.407946
std       0.280562
min       0.116874
25%       0.189307
50%       0.327940
75%       0.556053
max       0.871461
dtype: float64

In [9]: s.describe()[['count','mean']]
Out[9]: 
count    10.000000
mean      0.407946
dtype: float64