Check if a value exists in pandas dataframe index

Question

I am sure there is an obvious way to do this but cant think of anything slick right now.

Basically instead of raising exception I would like to get True

Answer 1

Just for reference as it was something I was looking for, you can test for presence within the values or the index by appending the ".values" method, e.g.

g in df..values
g in df.index.values

I find that adding the ".values" to get a simple list or ndarray out makes exist or "in" checks run more smoothly with the other python tools. Just thought I'd toss that out there for people.