[python] How do I get the row count of a Pandas DataFrame?

...building on Jan-Philip Gehrcke's answer.

The reason why len(df) or len(df.index) is faster than df.shape[0]:

Look at the code. df.shape is a @property that runs a DataFrame method calling len twice.

df.shape??
Type:        property
String form: <property object at 0x1127b33c0>
Source:
# df.shape.fget
@property
def shape(self):
    """
    Return a tuple representing the dimensionality of the DataFrame.
    """
    return len(self.index), len(self.columns)

And beneath the hood of len(df)

df.__len__??
Signature: df.__len__()
Source:
    def __len__(self):
        """Returns length of info axis, but here we use the index """
        return len(self.index)
File:      ~/miniconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py
Type:      instancemethod

len(df.index) will be slightly faster than len(df) since it has one less function call, but this is always faster than df.shape[0]

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