I don't use Pandas, but this seems to do it: >>> df = [[1,2,3,4,5],[1,2,3,4,5],[1,2,3,4,5]] >>> headings = ['Mean','Max','Min','TestA','TestB'] >>> tbl = [headings] + df >>> tbl[['Mean', 'Max', 'Min', 'TestA', 'TestB'], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]] Hope this helps, Andy