How to append rows in a pandas dataframe in a for loop?

Question

I have the following for loop:

for i in links:
     data = urllib2.urlopen(str(i)).read()
     data = json.loads(data)
     data = pd.DataFrame(data.items())         


        

Answer 1

First, create a empty DataFrame with column names, after that, inside the for loop, you must define a dictionary (a row) with the data to append:

df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A'])
for i in range(5):
    df = df.append({'A': i}, ignore_index=True)
df
   A
0  0
1  1
2  2
3  3
4  4

If you want to add a row with more columns, the code will looks like this:

df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A','B','C'])
for i in range(5):
    df = df.append({'A': i,
                    'B': i * 2,
                    'C': i * 3,
                   }
                   ,ignore_index=True
                  )
df
    A   B   C
0   0   0   0
1   1   2   3
2   2   4   6
3   3   6   9
4   4   8   12

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