empty series with column and index names code example

Example 1: empty dataframe

newDF = pd.DataFrame() #creates a new dataframe that's empty
newDF = newDF.append(oldDF, ignore_index = True) # ignoring index is optional
# try printing some data from newDF
print newDF.head() #again optional

Example 2: initialize pandas dataframe with column names

column_names = ["a", "b", "c"]
df = pd.DataFrame(columns = column_names)