Insert New Row at Arbitrary Position of pandas DataFrame in Python (Example Code)

This tutorial demonstrates how to add a new row at a specific position of a pandas DataFrame in the Python programming language.

Creation of Example Data

import pandas as pd                                              # Import pandas
my_df = pd.DataFrame({"A":["yes", "maybe", "yes", "no", "yes"],  # Construct pandas DataFrame
                     "B":range(1, 6),
                     "C":["hey", "hoho", "hi", "huhu", "hello"]})
print(my_df)
#        A  B      C
# 0    yes  1    hey
# 1  maybe  2   hoho
# 2    yes  3     hi
# 3     no  4   huhu
# 4    yes  5  hello
my_list = ["xxx", "yyy", "zzz"]                                  # Construct list object
print(my_list)
# ['xxx', 'yyy', 'zzz']

Example: Inserting New Row at an Arbitrary Location of a pandas DataFrame

my_df2 = my_df.copy()                                            # Add new row at certain position
my_df2.loc[1.5] = my_list
my_df2 = my_df2.sort_index()
print(my_df2)
#          A    B      C
# 0.0    yes    1    hey
# 1.0  maybe    2   hoho
# 1.5    xxx  yyy    zzz
# 2.0    yes    3     hi
# 3.0     no    4   huhu
# 4.0    yes    5  hello

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