Python pandas slice dataframe by multiple index ranges

Question

What is the pythonic way to slice a dataframe by more index ranges (eg. by 10:12 and 25:28)?

I want this in a more elegant way:

df = pd.DataFrame({'a':range(10,100)})
df.iloc[[i for i in range(10,12)] + [i for i in range(25,28)]]

Result:

     a
10  20
11  21
25  35
26  36
27  37

Something like this would be more elegant:

df.iloc[(10:12, 25:28)]

Answer 1

You can use numpy's r_ "slicing trick":

df = pd.DataFrame({'a':range(10,100)})
df.iloc[pd.np.r_[10:12, 25:28]]

NOTE: this now gives a warning The pandas.np module is deprecated and will be removed from pandas in a future version. Import numpy directly instead. To do that, you can import numpy as np and then slice the following way:

df.iloc[np.r_[10:12, 25:28]]

This gives:

     a
10  20
11  21
25  35
26  36
27  37