pandas edit a cell value with itertuples

Question

I would like speed my code, so I don't like to use double for: my code:

    for c in range(0, n-1):
        for l in range(0,n-c-1):
            df2.ix[l,c]=C_back(l,c,df)

I would like to use

for x in df.itertuples():

but I don't know how to modify a specific cell value. thanks

Answer 1

use stack

for mytuple, value in df.stack().iteritems():
    print(mytuple, value)

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consider the df

df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(9).reshape(-1, 3), list('ABC'), list('XYZ'))
df

for mytuple, value in df.stack().iteritems():
    print(mytuple, value)

('A', 'X') 0
('A', 'Y') 1
('A', 'Z') 2
('B', 'X') 3
('B', 'Y') 4
('B', 'Z') 5
('C', 'X') 6
('C', 'Y') 7
('C', 'Z') 8

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To set the values of df

for (i, j), value in df.stack().iteritems():
    df.set_value(i, j, value ** 2)

df