How do I sample() a row from a Dataframe, without its index?

If there is a different approach, that's ok.

Pandas documentation offers ignore_index parameter.

DataFrame.sample(n=None, frac=None, replace=False, weights=None, random_state=None, axis=None, ignore_index=False)

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However, when I run:

df['col'].sample(ignore_index=True)

I'll still get the index and the value, e.g.:

1    value

Desired:

value

CodePudding user response：

In pandas all objects like Series and DataFrames has index.

Parameter ignore_index obviously generate default RangeIndex, not remove it.

If need scalar from Series select first value:

out = df['col'].sample(1).iat[0]