Index and Columns

import pandas as pd 

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fahadsultan/csc272/main/data/elections.csv"

elections = pd.read_csv(url)

`.columns`

The .columns attribute returns the column labels of the DataFrame. It is a pandas Index object.

elections.head()

	Year	Candidate	Party	Popular vote	Result	%
0	1824	Andrew Jackson	Democratic-Republican	151271	loss	57.210122
1	1824	John Quincy Adams	Democratic-Republican	113142	win	42.789878
2	1828	Andrew Jackson	Democratic	642806	win	56.203927
3	1828	John Quincy Adams	National Republican	500897	loss	43.796073
4	1832	Andrew Jackson	Democratic	702735	win	54.574789

elections.columns

Index(['Year', 'Candidate', 'Party', 'Popular vote', 'Result', '%'], dtype='object')

type(elections.columns)

pandas.core.indexes.base.Index

.index attribute returns the row labels of the DataFrame. It is also a pandas Index object.

elections.index

RangeIndex(start=0, stop=182, step=1)

type(elections.index)

pandas.core.indexes.range.RangeIndex