Is there a way to copy only the structure (not the data) of a Pandas DataFrame?

Question

I received a DataFrame from somewhere and want to create another DataFrame with the same number and names of columns and rows (indexes). For example, suppose that the origin

Answer 1

A simple alternative -- first copy the basic structure or indexes and columns with datatype from the original dataframe (df1) into df2

df2 = df1.iloc[0:0]

Then fill your dataframe with empty rows -- pseudocode that will need to be adapted to better match your actual structure:

s = pd.Series([Nan,Nan,Nan], index=['Col1', 'Col2', 'Col3'])

loop through the rows in df1

df2 = df2.append(s)