Pandas selecting by label sometimes return Series, sometimes returns DataFrame
Granted that the behavior is inconsistent, but I think it’s easy to imagine cases where this is convenient. Anyway, to get a DataFrame every time, just pass a list to loc. There are other ways, but in my opinion this is the cleanest. In [2]: type(df.loc[[3]]) Out[2]: pandas.core.frame.DataFrame In [3]: type(df.loc[[1]]) Out[3]: pandas.core.frame.DataFrame