How to Iterate Over Rows in Pandas DataFrame

You can use the following basic syntax to iterate over rows in a pandas DataFrame:

for index, row in df.iterrows():
  print(row)

The following examples show how to use this syntax in practice with the following pandas DataFrame:

import pandas as pd

#create DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({'points': [25, 12, 15, 14, 19],
                   'assists': [5, 7, 7, 9, 12],
                   'rebounds': [11, 8, 10, 6, 6]})

#view DataFrame
df

	points	assists	rebounds
0	25	5	11
1	12	7	8
2	15	7	10
3	14	9	6
4	19	12	6

Example 1: Iterate Over All Rows in DataFrame

The following code shows how to iterate over every row in a pandas DataFrame:

for index, row in df.iterrows():
  print(row)

points      25
assists      5
rebounds    11
Name: 0, dtype: int64
points      12
assists      7
rebounds     8
Name: 1, dtype: int64
points      15
assists      7
rebounds    10
Name: 2, dtype: int64
points      14
assists      9
rebounds     6
Name: 3, dtype: int64
points      19
assists     12
rebounds     6
Name: 4, dtype: int64

We can also use the following syntax to iterate over every row and print just the index of each row:

for index, row in df.iterrows():
  print(index)

0
1
2
3
4

Example 2: Iterate Over Specific Rows

The following syntax shows how to iterate over specific rows in a pandas DataFrame:

#iterate over first three rows only
for index, row in df.iloc[0:3, :].iterrows():
  print(row)

points      25
assists      5
rebounds    11
Name: 0, dtype: int64
points      12
assists      7
rebounds     8
Name: 1, dtype: int64
points      15
assists      7
rebounds    10
Name: 2, dtype: int64

You can find the complete documentation for the iterrows() function here.

Additional Resources

How to Add Rows to a Pandas DataFrame
How to Count Number of Rows in Pandas DataFrame
How to Select Unique Rows in a Pandas DataFrame