pandas find column index by name code example

Example 1: get column number in dataframe pandas

# PANDAS: get column number from colomn name
dataframe.columns.get_loc("<col_name>")

Example 2: dataframe get index name

In [7]: df.index.name
Out[7]: 'Index Title'

In [8]: df.index.name = 'foo'

In [9]: df.index.name
Out[9]: 'foo'

In [10]: df
Out[10]: 
         Column 1
foo              
Apples          1
Oranges         2
Puppies         3
Ducks           4