How to hide the rows index

Question

I want to write this DataFrame to an xlsx file without the index values. How can I do it?

writer=pd.ExcelWriter(r"D:\pandas.xlsx")
today=datetime.datetime.today()
header = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([[today],["name","lastname","age"]])
data=pd.DataFrame(newList, columns=header)
data.to_excel(writer)
writer.save()

result:

  2019-09-16 18:23:20.851291              
                        name  lastname age
0                        John  McBrain  22
1                     Patrick    Heszke 33
2                      Luk         Nans 21

I need:

  2019-09-16 18:23:20.851291              
                        name  lastname age
                        John  McBrain  22
                     Patrick    Heszke 33
                         Luk      Nans 21

Answer 1

Here is a workaround for the Exception:

NotImplementedError: Writing to Excel with MultiIndex columns and no index ('index'=False) is not yet implemented.

that arises when calling df.to_excel(writer, index=False) when df.columns is a MultiIndex.

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

np.random.seed(2019)

def write_excel(df, path, *args, **kwargs):
    """
    Write df as an excel file to path, roughly similar to `df.to_excel` except that it handles
    `df` with MultiIndex columns and `index=False`.
    """
    writer = pd.ExcelWriter(path)

    header = pd.DataFrame(df.columns.to_list()).T
    header.to_excel(writer, header=False, *args, **kwargs)

    # Avoid the "NotImplementedError: Writing to Excel with MultiIndex columns"
    # exception by temporarily changing the columns to a single-level index
    orig_columns = df.columns
    df.columns = range(len(df.columns))
    df.to_excel(
        writer, startrow=len(header), header=False, *args, **kwargs
    )
    df.columns = orig_columns
    writer.save()

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(10, size=(5, 4)), columns=list("ABCD"))
df = df.set_index(list("AB")).unstack("B")
write_excel(df, r"/tmp/pandas.xlsx", sheet_name="Sheet1", index=False)    
print(df)

converts the DataFrame, df:

     C              D          
B    2    5    8    2    5    8
A                              
0  5.0  NaN  NaN  7.0  NaN  NaN
6  NaN  NaN  0.0  NaN  NaN  0.0
7  NaN  NaN  5.0  NaN  NaN  3.0
8  5.0  4.0  NaN  8.0  0.0  NaN

to a spreadsheet that looks like