determine an index in pandas dataframe code example

Example 1: find index of pandas column

In [45]: df = DataFrame({"pear": [1,2,3], "apple": [2,3,4], "orange": [3,4,5]})

In [46]: df.columns
Out[46]: Index([apple, orange, pear], dtype=object)

In [47]: df.columns.get_loc("pear")
Out[47]: 2

Example 2: get index number pandas dataframe

df.index[df['BoolCol'] == True].tolist()