displaying Pandas DataFrame in HTML without the extra row

Question

If I use DataFrame.set_index, I get this result:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([[\'foo\',1,3.0],[\'bar\',2,2.9],
                   [\'         


        

Answer 1

I poked around in the source for Styler and figured it out; if you set df.index.names = [None] then this suppresses the "extra" row (along with the column header that I don't really care about):

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([['foo',1,3.0],['bar',2,2.9],
                   ['baz',4,2.85],['quux',3,2.82]],
                 columns=['name','order','gpa'])
df = df.set_index('name')
df.index.names = [None]
df

Answer 2

These days pandas actually has a keyword for this:

df.to_html(index_names=False)

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_html.html