How to slice a Pandas Data Frame by position

Question

I have a Pandas Data Frame object that has 1000 rows and 10 columns  I would simply like to slice the Data Frame and take the first 10 rows  How can I do this  I ve been trying to use this    gt  gt  gt  df shape  1000 10   gt  gt  gt  my slice   df ix 10     gt  gt  gt  my slice shape  10     Shouldn t my slice be the first ten rows  ie  a 10 x 10 Data Frame  How can I get the first ten rows  such that my slice is a 10x10 Data Frame object  Thanks

User · Accepted Answer

http   pandas pydata org pandas-docs stable generated pandas DataFrame head html highlight head pandas DataFrame head  df2   df head 10    should do the trick

User · Answer

dataframe  n  - Will return first n-1 rows

User · Answer

I can see at least three options  1  df  10   2  Using head df head 10    For negative values of n  this function returns all rows except the last n rows  equivalent to df  -n   Source    3  Using iloc df iloc  10

User · Answer

df ix 10    gives you all the columns from the 10th row  In your case you want everything up to the 10th row which is df ix  9     Note that the right end of the slice range is inclusive  http   pandas sourceforge net gotchas html endpoints-are-inclusive

User · Answer

You can also do as a convenience   df  10

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