Insert a row to pandas dataframe

I have a dataframe:

s1 = pd.Series([5, 6, 7])
s2 = pd.Series([7, 8, 9])

df = pd.DataFrame([list(s1), list(s2)],  columns =  ["A", "B", "C"])

   A  B  C
0  5  6  7
1  7  8  9

[2 rows x 3 columns]

and I need to add a first row [2, 3, 4] to get:

   A  B  C
0  2  3  4
1  5  6  7
2  7  8  9

I've tried append() and concat() functions but can't find the right way how to do that.

How to add/insert series to dataframe?


Just assign row to a particular index, using loc:

 df.loc[-1] = [2, 3, 4]  # adding a row
 df.index = df.index + 1  # shifting index
 df = df.sort_index()  # sorting by index

And you get, as desired:

    A  B  C
 0  2  3  4
 1  5  6  7
 2  7  8  9

See in Pandas documentation Indexing: Setting with enlargement.


Not sure how you were calling concat() but it should work as long as both objects are of the same type. Maybe the issue is that you need to cast your second vector to a dataframe? Using the df that you defined the following works for me:

df2 = pd.DataFrame([[2,3,4]], columns=['A','B','C'])
pd.concat([df2, df])