How to move pandas data from index to column after multiple groupby

Question

I have the following pandas dataframe:

dfalph.head()

token    year    uses  books
  386   xanthos  1830    3     3
  387   xanthos  1840    1     1
  388   xanthos  1840    2     2
  389   xanthos  1868    2     2
  390   xanthos  1875    1     1

I aggregate the rows with duplicate token and years like so:

dfalph = dfalph[['token','year','uses','books']].groupby(['token', 'year']).agg([np.sum])
dfalph.columns = dfalph.columns.droplevel(1)
dfalph.head()

               uses  books
token    year       
xanthos  1830    3     3
         1840    3     3
         1867    2     2
         1868    2     2
         1875    1     1

Instead of having the 'token' and 'year' fields in the index, I would like to return them to columns and have an integer index.

Answer 1

Method #1: reset_index()

>>> g
              uses  books
               sum    sum
token   year             
xanthos 1830     3      3
        1840     3      3
        1868     2      2
        1875     1      1

[4 rows x 2 columns]
>>> g = g.reset_index()
>>> g
     token  year  uses  books
                   sum    sum
0  xanthos  1830     3      3
1  xanthos  1840     3      3
2  xanthos  1868     2      2
3  xanthos  1875     1      1

[4 rows x 4 columns]

Method #2: don't make the index in the first place, using as_index=False

>>> g = dfalph[['token', 'year', 'uses', 'books']].groupby(['token', 'year'], as_index=False).sum()
>>> g
     token  year  uses  books
0  xanthos  1830     3      3
1  xanthos  1840     3      3
2  xanthos  1868     2      2
3  xanthos  1875     1      1

[4 rows x 4 columns]