dataframe to csv missing column name for index

Question

When writing the pandas mainTable dataframe to mainTable.csv, but after the file is written the name of the column for index is missing.
Why does this happen since I have specified index=True?

mainTable.to_csv(r'/Users/myuser/Completed/mainTable.csv',index=True)
mainTable = pd.read_csv('mainTable.csv')
print(mainTable.columns)


 MacBook-Pro:Completed iliebogdanbarbulescu$ python map.py
Index(['Unnamed: 0', 'name', 'iso_a3', 'geometry', 'iso_code', 'continent']

print output

Answer 1

save with index_label='Index_name', since by default index_label=None.
See for pandas' .csv() method : https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_csv.html

mainTable.to_csv(r'/Users/myuser/Completed/mainTable.csv',index=True, index_label='Index_name')