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bgbg opened this issue Jul 20, 2014 · 2 comments · Fixed by #14344
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Conflicting documentation about index uniqueness #7808

bgbg opened this issue Jul 20, 2014 · 2 comments · Fixed by #14344
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bgbg commented Jul 20, 2014

The page http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/generated/pandas.Series.html says:

index : array-like or Index (1d)
Values must be unique and hashable, same length as data.

A little bit earlier the same page says:

Labels need not be unique but must be any hashable type.

Other pages also mention non-unique index support (e.g. http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/dsintro.html) It looks like index description should read:

index : array-like or Index (1d)
Values must be hashable, same length as data. Non-unique index values are allowed.

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jreback commented Jul 20, 2014

yep looks like hasn't been update
pls do a pull-request with those changes

@jreback jreback added the Docs label Jul 21, 2014
@jreback jreback added this to the 0.15.0 milestone Jul 21, 2014
@jreback jreback modified the milestones: 0.15.1, 0.15.0 Sep 9, 2014
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jreback commented Sep 9, 2014

@bgbg pull-request for this?

@jreback jreback modified the milestones: 0.16.0, Next Major Release Mar 6, 2015
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