pandas drop all up to specified index code example

Example 1: delete index in df

>>> df.reset_index(drop=True)
    class  max_speed
0    bird      389.0
1    bird       24.0
2  mammal       80.5
3  mammal        NaN

Example 2: drop a list of index pandas

In [65]: df
Out[65]: 
       one  two
one      1    4
two      2    3
three    3    2
four     4    1


In [66]: df.drop(df.index[[1,3]])
Out[66]: 
       one  two
one      1    4
three    3    2