pandas change row to header code example

Example 1: make first row column names pandas

new_header = df.iloc[0] #grab the first row for the header
df = df[1:] #take the data less the header row
df.columns = new_header #set the header row as the df header

Example 2: promote a row in panda dataframe to header

df.columns = df.iloc[0]
df = df[1:]