.iloc[:] and .loc[:] return the original object · Issue #13873 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Description

Each of these asserts should fail:

on pandas 0.18.1

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'x': range(3)}) assert df.iloc[:] is df assert df.loc[:] is df

series = df.x assert series.iloc[:] is series assert series.loc[:] is series

Instead, for the sake of predictability, these should always return a new DataFrame/Series, even if they reuse the same data. See here for an example of how this resulted in a user facing bug within pandas.

Thanks @mborysow for pointing this out.