How to get the common index of two pandas dataframes?

Question

I have two pandas DataFrames df1 and df2 and I want to transform them in order that they keep values only for the index that are common to the 2 dataframes.

df1

Answer 1

You can use Index.intersection + DataFrame.loc:

idx = df1.index.intersection(df2.index)
print (idx)
Index(['28/11/2000', '29/11/2000', '30/11/2000'], dtype='object')

Alternative solution with numpy.intersect1d:

idx = np.intersect1d(df1.index, df2.index)
print (idx)
['28/11/2000' '29/11/2000' '30/11/2000']

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df1 = df1.loc[idx]
print (df1)
            values 1
28/11/2000 -0.055276
29/11/2000  0.027427
30/11/2000  0.066009

df2 = df2.loc[idx]