Pandas: Adding new column to dataframe which is a copy of the index column

Question

I have a dataframe which I want to plot with matplotlib, but the index column is the time and I cannot plot it.

This is the dataframe (df3):

but whe

Answer 1

I think you need reset_index:

df3 = df3.reset_index()

Possible solution, but I think inplace is not good practice, check this and this:

df3.reset_index(inplace=True)

But if you need new column, use:

df3['new'] = df3.index

I think you can read_csv better:

df = pd.read_csv('university2.csv', 
                 sep=";", 
                 skiprows=1,
                 index_col='YYYY-MO-DD HH-MI-SS_SSS',
                 parse_dates='YYYY-MO-DD HH-MI-SS_SSS') #if doesnt work, use pd.to_datetime

And then omit:

#Changing datetime
df['YYYY-MO-DD HH-MI-SS_SSS'] = pd.to_datetime(df['YYYY-MO-DD HH-MI-SS_SSS'], 
                                               format='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S:%f')
#Set index from column
df = df.set_index('YYYY-MO-DD HH-MI-SS_SSS')