disable index pandas data frame

Question

How can I drop or disable the indices in a pandas Data Frame?

I am learning the pandas from the book \"python for data analysis\" and I already know I can use the datafr

Answer 1

I have a function that may help some. I combine csv files with a header in the following way in python:

    def combine_csvs(filedict, combined_file):
        files = filedict['files']
        df = pd.read_csv(files[0])
        for file in files[1:]:
            df = pd.concat([df, pd.read_csv(file)])
        df.to_csv(combined_file, index=False)
        return df

It can take as many files as you need. Call this as:

    combine_csvs(dict(files=["file1.csv","file2.csv", "file3.csv"]), 'output.csv')

Or if you are reading the dataframe in python as:

    df = combine_csvs(dict(files=["file1.csv","file2.csv"]), 'output.csv')

The combine_csvs fucntion does not save the indices. If you need the indices use 'index=True' instead.