Repeating elements in a dataframe - python-3.x

Question

Hi all I have the following dataframe:
A | B | C
1 2 3
2 3 4
3 4 5
4 5 6
And I am trying to only repeat the last two rows of the data so that it looks like this:
A | B | C
1 2 3
2 3 4
3 4 5
3 4 5
4 5 6
4 5 6
I have tried using append, concat and repeat to no avail.
repeated = lambda x:x.repeat(2)
df.append(df[-2:].apply(repeated),ignore_index=True)
This returns the following dataframe, which is incorrect:
A | B | C
1 2 3
2 3 4
3 4 5
4 5 6
3 4 5
3 4 5
4 5 6
4 5 6

Answer 1

You can use numpy.repeat for repeating index and then create df1 by loc, last append to original, but before filter out last 2 rows by iloc:
df1 = df.loc[np.repeat(df.index[-2:].values, 2)]
print (df1)
A B C
2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6
print (df.iloc[:-2])
A B C
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
df = df.iloc[:-2].append(df1,ignore_index=True)
print (df)
A B C
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 3 4 5
4 4 5 6
5 4 5 6
If want use your code add iloc for filtering only last 2 rows:
repeated = lambda x:x.repeat(2)
df = df.iloc[:-2].append(df.iloc[-2:].apply(repeated),ignore_index=True)
print (df)
A B C
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 3 4 5
4 4 5 6
5 4 5 6

Answer 2

Use pd.concat and index slicing with .iloc:
pd.concat([df,df.iloc[-2:]]).sort_values(by='A')
Output:
A B C
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6

Answer 3

I'm partial to manipulating the index into the pattern we are aiming for then asking the dataframe to take the new form.
Option 1
Use pd.DataFrame.reindex
df.reindex(df.index[:-2].append(df.index[-2:].repeat(2)))
A B C
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6
Same thing in multiple lines
i = df.index
idx = i[:-2].append(i[-2:].repeat(2))
df.reindex(idx)
Could also use loc
i = df.index
idx = i[:-2].append(i[-2:].repeat(2))
df.loc[idx]
Option 2
Reconstruct from values. Only do this is all dtypes are the same.
i = np.arange(len(df))
idx = np.append(i[:-2], i[-2:].repeat(2))
pd.DataFrame(df.values[idx], df.index[idx])
0 1 2
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6
Option 3
Can also use np.array in iloc
i = np.arange(len(df))
idx = np.append(i[:-2], i[-2:].repeat(2))
df.iloc[idx]
A B C
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6