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

This has worked for me in pandas 0.22: df2 = pd.DataFrame(index=df.index.delete(slice(None)), columns=df.columns)

Convert types: df2 = df2.astype(df.dtypes)

delete(slice(None)) In case you do not want to keep the values ​​of the indexes.