Reshape pandas dataframe from column to unique index

Question

I'm trying to reshape my dataframe, in which I want the Person to the be index, however how do I make it so the index is unique? I don't know want duplicates in my Index.

df = pd.DataFrame({'Person':['Paul','Paul','Paul','John','John','Mia'],'Score':[24,23,54,64,89,56],'Type':['A','C','F','A','G','X'],'Number':[1,2,3,1,2,1]})

df.set_index('Person',inplace = True)

Desired output:

Answer 1

If you just wanna remove the duplicate values from the index use:

df = df.set_index('Person')
df.index = np.where(df.index.duplicated(), '', df.index) 

Answer 2

You could create a MultiIndex , keeping the previous numerical index as the second level:

df.set_index(['Person', df.index], inplace=True)
df

            Score   Type    Number
Person              
Paul    0   24      A       1
        1   23      C       2
        2   54      F       3
John    3   64      A       1
        4   89      G       2
Mia     5   56      X       1

I think this is the closest you can get to your desired output, because by definition there has to be an index value for each row of the dataframe.