Answers for "define a blank dataframe in python"

empty dataframe

newDF = pd.DataFrame() #creates a new dataframe that's empty
newDF = newDF.append(oldDF, ignore_index = True) # ignoring index is optional
# try printing some data from newDF
print newDF.head() #again optional

create an empty dataframe

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['A','B','C','D','E','F','G'])