Create a Pandas scatter plot, where one of the axes is the index

Question

If I have a data frame, where I want to create a scatter plot of a column against the index, is there a way simpler than using matplotlib directly, or create a list out of the index, etc? Something like this:

df.plot.scatter(x='index', y='price')

I am assuming that this won't work, because an index might consist of multiple series and Pandas won't know which to draw upon, without further indication.

Answer 1

Temporarily reset the index and treat it just like any other column:

df.reset_index().plot.scatter(x='level_0', y='price')