Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday, 1 September 2019 10:48:54 UTC+10, Sayth Renshaw wrote: >> I've created a share doc same structure anon data from my google drive. >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B28JfFTPNr_lckxQRnFTRF9UTEFYRUVqRWxCNVd1VEZhcVNr/view?usp=sharing >> >> Sayth > > I tried creating the df1 dataframe by using iloc instead of loc to avoid any > column naming issues. > > So i created a list of integers for iloc representing the columns in current > example. > > df1 = df.iloc[[0,1,5,6,7]] > > However, I ust be misunderstanding the docs > https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.iloc.html#pandas.DataFrame.iloc > Allowed inputs are: > > An integer, e.g. 5. > A list or array of integers, e.g. [4, 3, 0]. > > Because while it works I appear to grab all columns 13 when I requested 5. > UID Name FTE Agent ID Current Leader New Leader Current Team New > Team Current Site New Site Unnamed: 10 Unnamed: 11 Unnamed: 12 > > How do I misunderstand iloc? > That would select ROWS 0,1,5,6,7, not columns. To select columns 0,1,5,6,7, use two-dimensional indexes
df1 = df.iloc[:, [0,1,5,6,7]] : selects all rows. -- Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list