Assignment using .ix[] raises ValueError

[twiecki]

This works with 0.12 but not with master:

In [8]: import pandas as pd
In [10]: x = pd.DataFrame({'a': [1, 2, 3]})
In [13]: x['a'].ix[[0, 1, 2]] = -x['a'].ix[[0, 1, 2]]
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-13-30fcfd21bb22> in <module>()
----> 1 x['a'].ix[[0, 1, 2]] = -x['a'].ix[[0, 1, 2]]

/home/wiecki/envs/hddm/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in __setitem__(self, key, value)
     94             indexer = self._convert_to_indexer(key, is_setter=True)
     95 
---> 96         self._setitem_with_indexer(indexer, value)
     97 
     98     def _has_valid_type(self, k, axis):

/home/wiecki/envs/hddm/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value)
    409 
    410             if isinstance(value, ABCSeries):
--> 411                 value = self._align_series(indexer, value)
    412 
    413             elif isinstance(value, ABCDataFrame):

/home/wiecki/envs/hddm/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _align_series(self, indexer, ser)
    516             return ser.reindex(ax).values
    517 
--> 518         raise ValueError('Incompatible indexer with Series')
    519 
    520     def _align_frame(self, indexer, df):

ValueError: Incompatible indexer with Series
> /home/wiecki/envs/hddm/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py(518)_align_series()
    517 
--> 518         raise ValueError('Incompatible indexer with Series')
    519 

This is where it showed up: hddm-devs/hddm#35

[jreback]

@twiecki I fixed this, but you really should do this like

df.ix[[0,1,2],'a'] = -df.ix[[0,1,2],'a']

your method will in general fail when assigning a non-trivial rhs as you would be assigning to a copy (this specific does work as its a complete assignment within a signle dtype)

the proper ix usage will always work

this is chained assignment, see here: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy

[twiecki]

Thanks, fixed with hddm-devs/hddm@fa4e949.