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5,856 PointsFilling out missing values
At about minute 3 missing values of "Golbat" (row 42 of dataframe "data") are filled out. My question is how it is possible that a new object/row is created (golbat = data.loc[42]), values in it changed and then the values of the data frame (data) change correspondig? Aren't these to seperate objects? Which Python rule applies here? Thank you for your help!
golbat = data.loc[42]
golbat["Height (in)"] = 63
golbat["Weight (lbs)"] = 121.30
data.loc[42]
1 Answer
Mel Rumsey
Treehouse ModeratorHey there kawa !
By creating golbat = data.loc[42]
we are creating a reference to that specific row. When we change the values of weight and height for the referenced value, the values change in the dataframe.
kawa
5,856 Pointskawa
5,856 PointsHello Mel, thank you for you answer! Is this a specialty of the pandas.loc() function? If the same principle applies, a should have the value of 2 aswell in the below example. Which it doesn't.