Pandas: Appending a row to a dataframe and specify its index label

Is there any way to specify the index that I want for a new row, when appending the row to a dataframe?

The original documentation provides the following example:

In [1301]: df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 4), columns=['A','B','C','D'])

In [1302]: df
Out[1302]: 
          A         B         C         D
0 -1.137707 -0.891060 -0.693921  1.613616
1  0.464000  0.227371 -0.496922  0.306389
2 -2.290613 -1.134623 -1.561819 -0.260838
3  0.281957  1.523962 -0.902937  0.068159
4 -0.057873 -0.368204 -1.144073  0.861209
5  0.800193  0.782098 -1.069094 -1.099248
6  0.255269  0.009750  0.661084  0.379319
7 -0.008434  1.952541 -1.056652  0.533946

In [1303]: s = df.xs(3)

In [1304]: df.append(s, ignore_index=True)
Out[1304]: 
          A         B         C         D
0 -1.137707 -0.891060 -0.693921  1.613616
1  0.464000  0.227371 -0.496922  0.306389
2 -2.290613 -1.134623 -1.561819 -0.260838
3  0.281957  1.523962 -0.902937  0.068159
4 -0.057873 -0.368204 -1.144073  0.861209
5  0.800193  0.782098 -1.069094 -1.099248
6  0.255269  0.009750  0.661084  0.379319
7 -0.008434  1.952541 -1.056652  0.533946
8  0.281957  1.523962 -0.902937  0.068159

where the new row gets the index label automatically. Is there any way to control the new label?