If you want to pull out only the index values for certain integer-based row-indices, you can do something like the following using the iloc method:
In [28]: temp
Out[28]:
index time complete
row_0 2 2014-10-22 01:00:00 0
row_1 3 2014-10-23 14:00:00 0
row_2 4 2014-10-26 08:00:00 0
row_3 5 2014-10-26 10:00:00 0
row_4 6 2014-10-26 11:00:00 0
In [29]: temp.iloc[[0,1,4]].index
Out[29]: Index([u'row_0', u'row_1', u'row_4'], dtype='object')
In [30]: temp.iloc[[0,1,4]].index.tolist()
Out[30]: ['row_0', 'row_1', 'row_4']