How to Add Incremental Numbers to a New Column Using Pandas

Question

I have this simplified dataframe:

ID   Fruit
F1   Apple
F2   Orange
F3   Banana 

I want to add in the begining of the dataframe a new colum

Answer 1

You can also simply set your pandas column as list of id values with length same as of dataframe.

df['New_ID'] = range(880, 880+len(df))

Reference docs : https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/missing_data.html