pandas.errors.SettingWithCopyWarning

exception pandas.errors.SettingWithCopyWarning

Warning raised when trying to set on a copied slice from a DataFrame.

The mode.chained_assignment needs to be set to set to ‘warn.’ ‘Warn’ is the default option. This can happen unintentionally when chained indexing.

For more information on eveluation order, see the user guide.

For more information on view vs. copy, see the user guide.

Examples

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1, 1, 1, 2, 2]}, columns=['A'])
>>> df.loc[0:3]['A'] = 'a' 
... # SettingWithCopyWarning: A value is trying to be set on a copy of a...