You can access the index attribute of a df using .index:
In [277]:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':np.arange(10), 'b':np.random.randn(10)})
df
Out[277]:
a b
0 0 0.293422
1 1 -1.631018
2 2 0.065344
3 3 -0.417926
4 4 1.925325
5 5 0.167545
6 6 -0.988941
7 7 -0.277446
8 8 1.426912
9 9 -0.114189
In [278]:
df.index
Out[278]:
Int64Index([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], dtype="int64")