CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

Reset Index & Retain Old Index as Column in pandas

import pandas as pd

#define DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame({'points': [25, 12, 15, 14, 19, 23, 25, 29],
                   'assists': [5, 7, 7, 9, 12, 9, 9, 4],
                   'rebounds': [11, 8, 10, 6, 6, 5, 9, 12]},
                   index=['A', 'C', 'D', 'B', 'E', 'G', 'F', 'H'])

#view DataFrame
print(df)

   points  assists  rebounds
A      25        5        11
C      12        7         8
D      15        7        10
B      14        9         6
E      19       12         6
G      23        9         5
F      25        9         9
H      29        4        12