Iterating over rows of dataframe but keep each row as a dataframe - python-3.x

Question

I want to iterate over the rows of a dataframe, but keep each row as a dataframe that has the exact same format of the parent dataframe, except with only one row. I know about calling DataFrame() and passing in the index and columns, but for some reason this doesn't always give me the same format of the parent dataframe. Calling to_frame() on the series (i.e. the row) does cast it back to a dataframe, but often transposed or in some way different from the parent dataframe format. Isn't there some easy way to do this and guarantee it will always be the same format for each row?
Here is what I came up with as my best solution so far:
def transact(self, orders):
# Buy or Sell
if len(orders) > 1:
empty_order = orders.iloc[0:0]
for index, order in orders.iterrows():
empty_order.loc[index] = order
#empty_order.append(order)
self.sub_transact(empty_order)
else:
self.sub_transact(orders)
In essence, I empty the dataframe and then insert the series, from the For loop, back into it. This works correctly, but gives the following warning:
C:\Users\BNielson\Google Drive\My Files\machine-learning\Python-Machine-Learning\ML4T_Ex2_1.py:57: SettingWithCopyWarning:
A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame
See the caveats in the documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy
empty_order.loc[index] = order
C:\Users\BNielson\Anaconda3\envs\PythonMachineLearning\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexing.py:477: SettingWithCopyWarning:
A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame.
Try using .loc[row_indexer,col_indexer] = value instead
See the caveats in the documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy
self.obj[item] = s
So it's this line giving the warning:
empty_order.loc[index] = order
This is particularly strange because I am using .loc already, when normally you get this error when you don't use .loc.

Answer 1

There is a much much easier way to do what I want.
order.to_frame().T
So...
if len(orders) > 1:
for index, order in orders.iterrows():
self.sub_transact(order.to_frame().T)
else:
self.sub_transact(orders)
What this actually does is translates the series (which still contains the necessary column and index information) back to a dataframe. But for some Moronic (but I'm sure Pythonic) reason it transposes it so that the previous row is now the column and the previous columns are now multiple rows! So you just transpose it back.

Answer 2

Use groupby with a unique list. groupby does exactly what you are asking for as in, it iterates over each group and each group is a dataframe. So, if you manipulate it such that you groupby a value that is unique for each and every row, you'll get a single row dataframe when you iterate over the group
for n, group in df.groupby(np.arange(len(df))):
pass
# do stuff

Answer 3

If I can suggest an alternative way than it would be like this:
for index, order in orders.iterrows():
orders.loc[index:index]
orders.loc[index:index] is exactly one row dataframe slice with the same structure, including index and column names.