How to slice a Pandas Data Frame by position?
df2 = df.head(10)should do the trick
df.ix[10,:] gives you all the columns from the 10th row. In your case you want everything up to the 10th row which is df.ix[:9,:]. Note that the right end of the slice range is inclusive: http://pandas.sourceforge.net/gotchas.html#endpoints-are-inclusive