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Reset the Index of a pandas DataFrame

reset_index

By default reset_index returns a copy rather than modify the original data frame. You can specify inplace = True to overwrite the behavior.

Series

  1. If you drop the original index, you still have a Series. However, if you reset index of a sereis without dropping the original index, you get a data frame.