Using pandas .append within for loop
<p>I am appending rows to a pandas DataFrame within a for loop, but at the end the dataframe is always empty. I don't want to add the rows to an array and then call the DataFrame constructer, because my actual for loop handles lots of data. I also tried <code>pd.concat</code> without success. Could anyone highlight what I am missing to make the append statement work? Here's a dummy example:</p>

<pre><code>import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

data = pd.DataFrame([])

for i in np.arange(0, 4):
    if i % 2 == 0:
        data.append(pd.DataFrame({'A': i, 'B': i + 1}, index=[0]), ignore_index=True)
    else:
        data.append(pd.DataFrame({'A': i}, index=[0]), ignore_index=True)

print data.head()

Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: []
[Finished in 0.676s]
</code></pre>