All possible combinations of pandas data frame rows

Question

I have a pandas data frame having 4 rows:

df:

col1    col2    col3    col4
A1      A2      A3      A4
B1      B2      B3      B4 
C1      C2      C3      C4
D1      D2      D3      D4

How do i find all possible combinations of selecting two rows of this data frame. In this case I can choose 2 rows from 4 rows in 4C2 = 6 possible ways

df1:

col1    col2    col3    col4
A1      A2      A3      A4
B1      B2      B3      B4

df2:

col1    col2    col3    col4
A1      A2      A3      A4
C1      C2      C3      C4

df3:

col1    col2    col3    col4
A1      A2      A3      A4
D1      D2      D3      D4

and so on.....

Answer 1

First, you need to find all the combinations using itertoolsand then use the output of combinations as index to your dataframe. You will get all the possible dataframes of the given number of rows.

from itertools import combinations
for index in list(combinations(df.index,2)):
    print(df.loc[index,:])
    print('\n')

The output will be:

  col1 col2 col3 col4
0   A1   A2   A3   A4
1   B1   B2   B3   B4


  col1 col2 col3 col4
0   A1   A2   A3   A4
2   C1   C2   C3   C4


  col1 col2 col3 col4
0   A1   A2   A3   A4
3   D1   D2   D3   D4


  col1 col2 col3 col4
1   B1   B2   B3   B4
2   C1   C2   C3   C4


  col1 col2 col3 col4
1   B1   B2   B3   B4
3   D1   D2   D3   D4


  col1 col2 col3 col4
2   C1   C2   C3   C4
3   D1   D2   D3   D4