select index pandas code example

Example 1: loc and iloc in pandas

iloc - default indexes (system generated)
loc - table indexes or we manually given indexes

Example 2: pandas df by row index

indices = [133, 22, 19, 203, 14, 1]
df_by_indices = df.iloc[indices, :]

Example 3: add an index column in range dataframe

df = df.loc[df.index.repeat(df['a'])]   
df['c'] = df.groupby(level=0).cumcount() + 1
df = df.reset_index(drop=True)
print (df)
   a  b  c
0  1  x  1
1  2  y  1
2  2  y  2
3  3  z  1
4  3  z  2
5  3  z  3

Example 4: indexing column in pandas

In [8]: age_sex = titanic[["Age", "Sex"]]

In [9]: age_sex.head()
Out[9]: 
    Age     Sex
0  22.0    male
1  38.0  female
2  26.0  female
3  35.0  female
4  35.0    male