collapse pandas dataframe rows based on index column - pandas

Question

I have a dataframe that contains information that is linked by an ID column. The rows are sequential with the odd rows containing a "start-point" and the even rows containing an "end" point. My goal is to collapse the data from these into a single row with columns for "start" and "end" following each other. The rows do have a "packet ID" that would link them if the sequential nature of the dataframe is not consistent.
example:
df:
0 1 2 3 4 5
0 hs6 106956570 106956648 ID_A1 60 -
1 hs1 153649721 153649769 ID_A1 60 -
2 hs1 865130744 865130819 ID_A2 0 -
3 hs7 21882206 21882237 ID_A2 0 -
4 hs1 74230744 74230819 ID_A3 0 +
5 hs8 92041314 92041508 ID_A3 0 +
The resulting dataframe that I am trying to achieve is:
new_df
0 1 2 3 4 5
0 hs6 106956570 106956648 hs1 153649721 153649769
1 hs1 865130744 865130819 hs7 21882206 21882237
2 hs1 74230744 74230819 hs8 92041314 92041508
with each row containing the information on both the start and the end-point.
I have tried to pass the IDs in to an array and use a for loop to pull the information out of the original dataframe into a new dataframe but this has not worked. I was looking at the melt documentation which would suggest that pd.melt(df, id_vars=[3], value_vars=[0,1,2]) may work but I cannot see how to get the corresponding row in to positions new_df[3,4,5].
I think that it may be something really simple that I am missing but any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can try this:
df_out = df.set_index([df.index%2, df.index//2])[df.columns[:3]]\
.unstack(0).sort_index(level=1, axis=1)
df_out.columns = np.arange(len(df_out.columns))
df_out
Output:
0 1 2 3 4 5
0 hs6 106956570 106956648 hs1 153649721 153649769
1 hs1 865130744 865130819 hs7 21882206 21882237
2 hs1 74230744 74230819 hs8 92041314 92041508