Indexing and selecting data — pandas 2.2.3 documentation

Indexing and selecting data# The axis labeling information in pandas objects serves many purposes: Identifies data (i.e. provides metadata) using known indicators, important for analysis, visualization, and interactive console display. Enables automatic and explicit data alignment. Allows intuitive getting and setting of subsets of the data set. In this section, we will focus on the final point: n

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“if you try to use attribute access to create a new column, it creates a new attribute rather than a new column. In 0.21.0 and later, this will raise a UserWarning: In [1]: df = pd.DataFrame({'one': [1., 2., 3.]}) In [2]: df.two = [4, 5, 6] UserWarning: Pandas doesn't allow Series to be assigned i