dentify each element of the underlying data. The index can be thought of as an immutable ordered set (technically a multi-set, as it may contain duplicate labels), and is used to index and align data in pandas. Returns ------- Index The index labels of the Series. See Also -------- Series.reindex : Conform Series to new index. Series.set_index : Set Series as DataFrame index. Index : The base pandas index type. Notes ----- For more information on pandas indexing, see the `indexing user guide `__. Examples -------- To create a Series with a custom index and view the index labels: >>> cities = ['Kolkata', 'Chicago', 'Toronto', 'Lisbon'] >>> populations = [14.85, 2.71, 2.93, 0.51] >>> city_series = pd.Series(populations, index=cities) >>> city_series.index Index(['Kolkata', 'Chicago', 'Toronto', 'Lisbon'], dtype='object') To change the index labels of an existing Series: >>> city_series.index = ['KOL', 'CHI', 'TOR', 'LIS'] >>> city_series.index Index(['KOL', 'CHI', 'TOR', 'LIS'], dtype='object') )