Accessing a Pandas index like a regular column
问题 I have a Pandas DataFrame with a named index. I want to pass it off to a piece off code that takes a DataFrame, a column name, and some other stuff, and does a bunch of work involving that column. Only in this case the column I want to highlight is the index, but giving the index's label to this piece of code doesn't work because you can't extract an index like you can a regular column. For example, I can construct a DataFrame like this: import pandas as pd, numpy as np df=pd.DataFrame({'name