Cumulatively merge rows with the same index

In python pandas, I have a dataframe which looks something like this:

> df
               count
date                
2021-04-03  23.0
2021-04-04  12.0
2021-04-04  10.0
2021-04-05  42.0
2021-04-06  39.0
...

Some of the dates are repeated, with a different count value. I would like to merge these values into one row like this:

> df
               count
date                
2021-04-03  23.0
2021-04-04  22.0
2021-04-05  42.0
2021-04-06  39.0
..

If it’s any help the data source is a CSV file. There is likely a way to do this in a for loop but I was wondering if this can be done with a function in pandas? Thanks.

Answer

You can group by the index and sum the values in this case

>>> result = df.groupby(df.index)['count'].sum()
>>> result
date
2021-04-03    23.0
2021-04-04    22.0
2021-04-05    42.0
2021-04-06    39.0
Name: count, dtype: float64