How to slice a Pandas Data Frame by position?

Question

I have a Pandas Data Frame object that has 1000 rows and 10 columns. I would simply like to slice the Data Frame and take the first 10 rows. How can I do this? I\'ve been tr

Answer 1

I can see at least three options:

1.

df[:10]

2. Using head

df.head(10)

For negative values of n, this function returns all rows except the last n rows, equivalent to df[:-n] [Source].

3. Using iloc

df.iloc[:10]