Pandas add row to datetime indexed dataframe - pandas

Question

I cannot find a solution for this problem. I would like to add future dates to a datetime indexed Pandas dataframe for model prediction purposes.
Here is where I am right now:
new_datetime = df2.index[-1:] # current end of datetime index
increment = '1 days' # string for increment - eventually will be in a for loop to add add'l days
new_datetime = new_datetime+pd.Timedelta(increment)
And this is where I am stuck. The append examples online only seem always seem to show examples with ignore_index=True , and in my case, I want to use the proper datetime indexing.

Answer 1

Suppose you have this df:
date value
0 2020-01-31 00:00:00 1
1 2020-02-01 00:00:00 2
2 2020-02-02 00:00:00 3
then an alternative for adding future days is
df.append(pd.DataFrame({'date': pd.date_range(start=df.date.iloc[-1], periods=6, freq='D', closed='right')}))
which returns
date value
0 2020-01-31 00:00:00 1.0
1 2020-02-01 00:00:00 2.0
2 2020-02-02 00:00:00 3.0
0 2020-02-03 00:00:00 NaN
1 2020-02-04 00:00:00 NaN
2 2020-02-05 00:00:00 NaN
3 2020-02-06 00:00:00 NaN
4 2020-02-07 00:00:00 NaN
where the frequency is D (days) day and the period is 6 days.

Answer 2

I think I was making this more difficult than necessary because I was using a datetime index instead of the typical integer index. By leaving the 'date' field as a regular column instead of an index adding the rows is straightforward.
One thing I did do was add a reindex command so I did not end up with wonky duplicate index values:
df = df.append(pd.DataFrame({'date': pd.date_range(start=df.date.iloc[-1], periods=21, freq='D', closed='right')}))
df = df.reset_index() # resets index

Answer 3

i also needed this and i solve merging the code that you share with the code on this other response add to a dataframe as I go with datetime index and end out with the following code that work for me.
data=raw.copy()
new_datetime = data.index[-1:] # current end of datetime index
increment = '1 days' # string for increment - eventually will be in a for loop to add add'l days
new_datetime = new_datetime+pd.Timedelta(increment)
today_df = pd.DataFrame({'value': 301.124},index=new_datetime)
data = data.append(today_df)
data.tail()
here 'value' is the header of your own dataframe