How can I replicate rows in Pandas?

Using concat:

pd.concat([df]*3).sort_index()
Out[129]: 
   Person   ID  ZipCode  Gender
0   12345  882    38182  Female
0   12345  882    38182  Female
0   12345  882    38182  Female
1   32917  271    88172    Male
1   32917  271    88172    Male
1   32917  271    88172    Male
2   18273  552    90291  Female
2   18273  552    90291  Female
2   18273  552    90291  Female

Use np.repeat:

Version 1:

Try using np.repeat:

newdf = pd.DataFrame(np.repeat(df.values, 3, axis=0))
newdf.columns = df.columns
print(newdf)

The above code will output:

  Person   ID ZipCode  Gender
0  12345  882   38182  Female
1  12345  882   38182  Female
2  12345  882   38182  Female
3  32917  271   88172    Male
4  32917  271   88172    Male
5  32917  271   88172    Male
6  18273  552   90291  Female
7  18273  552   90291  Female
8  18273  552   90291  Female

np.repeat repeats the values of df, 3 times.

Then we add the columns with assigning new_df.columns = df.columns.

Version 2:

You could also assign the column names in the first line, like below:

newdf = pd.DataFrame(np.repeat(df.values, 3, axis=0), columns=df.columns)
print(newdf)

The above code will also output:

  Person   ID ZipCode  Gender
0  12345  882   38182  Female
1  12345  882   38182  Female
2  12345  882   38182  Female
3  32917  271   88172    Male
4  32917  271   88172    Male
5  32917  271   88172    Male
6  18273  552   90291  Female
7  18273  552   90291  Female
8  18273  552   90291  Female

These will repeat the indices and preserve the columns as op demonstrated

iloc version 1

df.iloc[np.arange(len(df)).repeat(3)]

---

iloc version 2

df.iloc[np.arange(len(df) * 3) // 3]

You can do it like this.

def do_things(df, n_times):
    ndf = df.append(pd.DataFrame({'name' : np.repeat(df.name.values, n_times) }))
    ndf = ndf.sort_values(by='name')
    ndf = ndf.reset_index(drop=True)
    return ndf

if __name__ == '__main__':
    df = pd.DataFrame({'name' : ['Peter', 'Quill', 'Jackson']}) 
    n_times = 3
    print do_things(df, n_times)

And with explanation...

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

n_times = 3
df = pd.DataFrame({'name' : ['Peter', 'Quill', 'Jackson']})
#       name
# 0    Peter
# 1    Quill
# 2  Jackson

#   Duplicating data.
df = df.append(pd.DataFrame({'name' : np.repeat(df.name.values, n_times) }))
#       name
# 0    Peter
# 1    Quill
# 2  Jackson
# 0    Peter
# 1    Peter
# 2    Peter
# 3    Quill
# 4    Quill
# 5    Quill
# 6  Jackson
# 7  Jackson
# 8  Jackson

#   The DataFrame is sorted by 'name' column.
df = df.sort_values(by=['name'])
#       name
# 2  Jackson
# 6  Jackson
# 7  Jackson
# 8  Jackson
# 0    Peter
# 0    Peter
# 1    Peter
# 2    Peter
# 1    Quill
# 3    Quill
# 4    Quill
# 5    Quill

#   Reseting the index.
#   You can play with drop=True and drop=False, as parameter of `reset_index()`
df = df.reset_index()
#     index     name
# 0       2  Jackson
# 1       6  Jackson
# 2       7  Jackson
# 3       8  Jackson
# 4       0    Peter
# 5       0    Peter
# 6       1    Peter
# 7       2    Peter
# 8       1    Quill
# 9       3    Quill
# 10      4    Quill
# 11      5    Quill