How do I get the name of the rows from the index of a data frame?

Question

Consider a data frame with row names that aren't a column of their own per se, such as the following:

        X  Y  Row 1  0  5  Row 2  8  1  Row 3  3  0 

How would I extract the name of these rows as a list, if I have their index? For example, it would look something like:

function_name(dataframe[indices]) > ['Row 1', 'Row 2'] 

Answer 1

df.index

• outputs the row names as pandas Index object.

list(df.index)

• casts to a list.

df.index['Row 2':'Row 5']

• supports label slicing similar to columns.

Answer 2

this seems to work fine :

dataframe.axes[0].tolist()