Slice Pandas DataFrame by Row

Question

I am working with survey data loaded from an h5-file as hdf = pandas.HDFStore(\'Survey.h5\') through the pandas package. Within this DataFrame, all

Answer 1

If you already know the index you can use .loc:

In [12]: df = pd.DataFrame({"a": [1,2,3,4,5], "b": [4,5,6,7,8]})

In [13]: df
Out[13]:
   a  b
0  1  4
1  2  5
2  3  6
3  4  7
4  5  8

In [14]: df.loc[[0,2,4]]
Out[14]:
   a  b
0  1  4
2  3  6
4  5  8

In [15]: df.loc[1:3]
Out[15]:
   a  b
1  2  5
2  3  6
3  4  7