Set value for particular cell in pandas DataFrame using index

Question

I\'ve created a Pandas DataFrame

df = DataFrame(index=[\'A\',\'B\',\'C\'], columns=[\'x\',\'y\'])

and got this

    x    y
A  NaN         


        

Answer 1

The recommended way (according to the maintainers) to set a value is:

df.ix['x','C']=10

Using 'chained indexing' (df['x']['C']) may lead to problems.

See:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/21287235/1579844
• http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy
• https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/6031