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This tutorial explains how to use the get_first_row pandas.DataFrame.ilocattribute and pandas.DataFrame.head()get_first_row method from a Pandas DataFrame.

We will use the following DataFrame in the following example to explain how to get the first row from a Pandas DataFrame.

import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "C_1": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
        "C_2": [40, 34, 38, 45],
        "C_3": [430, 980, 200, 350],
    }
)

print(df)

Output:

  C_1  C_2  C_3
0   A   40  430
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  200
3   D   45  350

pandas.DataFrame.ilocGet the first row of a Pandas DataFrame using the

import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "C_1": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
        "C_2": [40, 34, 38, 45],
        "C_3": [430, 980, 200, 350],
    }
)

row_1 = df.iloc[0]

print("The DataFrame is:")
print(df, "\n")

print("The First Row of the DataFrame is:")
print(row_1)

Output:

The DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
0   A   40  430
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  200
3   D   45  350

The First Row of the DataFrame is:
C_1      A
C_2     40
C_3    430
Name: 0, dtype: object

It displays dfthe first row of the DataFrame. To select the first row, we use the default index of the first row, i.e., 0and the DataFrame's ilocattribute.

pandas.DataFrame.head()Get the first row from a Pandas DataFrame using

pandas.DataFrame.head()The method returns a DataFrame containing the top 5 rows of the DataFrame. We can also pass a number as a parameter to pandas.DataFrame.head()the method, representing the number of top rows to select. We can pass 1 as a parameter to pandas.DataFrame.head()the method to select only the first row of the DataFrame.

import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "C_1": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
        "C_2": [40, 34, 38, 45],
        "C_3": [430, 980, 200, 350],
    }
)

row_1 = df.head(1)

print("The DataFrame is:")
print(df, "\n")

print("The First Row of the DataFrame is:")
print(row_1)

Output:

The DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
0   A   40  430
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  200
3   D   45  350

The First Row of the DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
0   A   40  430

Get the first row from a Pandas DataFrame based on a specified condition

To extract the first row from a DataFrame that satisfies a specified condition, we first filter the rows that satisfy the specified condition and then select the first row from the filtered DataFrame using the method discussed above.

import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "C_1": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
        "C_2": [40, 34, 38, 45],
        "C_3": [430, 980, 500, 350],
    }
)

filtered_df = df[(df.C_2 < 40) & (df.C_3 > 450)]

row_1_filtered = filtered_df.head(1)

print("The DataFrame is:")
print(df, "\n")

print("The Filtered DataFrame is:")
print(filtered_df, "\n")


print("The First Row with C_2 less than 45 and C_3 greater than 450 is:")
print(row_1_filtered)

Output:

The DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
0   A   40  430
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  500
3   D   45  350

The Filtered DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  500

The First Row with C_2 less than 45 and C_3 greater than 450 is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
1   B   34  980

It will display the first row where the column C_2value is less than 45 and C_3the column value is greater than 450.

We can also use query()the method to filter the rows in the DataFrame.

import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "C_1": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],
        "C_2": [40, 34, 38, 45],
        "C_3": [430, 980, 500, 350],
    }
)

filtered_df = df.query("(C_2 < 40) & (C_3 > 450)")

row_1_filtered = filtered_df.head(1)

print("The DataFrame is:")
print(df, "\n")

print("The Filtered DataFrame is:")
print(filtered_df, "\n")


print("The First Row with C_2 less than 45 and C_3 greater than 450 is:")
print(row_1_filtered)

Output:

The DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
0   A   40  430
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  500
3   D   45  350

The Filtered DataFrame is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
1   B   34  980
2   C   38  500

The First Row with C_2 less than 45 and C_3 greater than 450 is:
  C_1  C_2  C_3
1   B   34  980

It will use query()the method to filter all rows where C_2the column value is less than 45 and the column C_3value is greater than 450, and then use head()the method filtered_dfto select the first row from .