API: getitem[int] vs setitem[int] with Float64Index · Issue #33469 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

ser = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4], index=[1.1, 2.1, 3.0, 4.1])

>>> ser[5]                    # <--we are treating 5 as a label
KeyError: 5

>>> ser[5] = 5                # < --we are treating 5 as position
IndexError: index 5 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 4

>>> ser[3] = 5                # <-- we are treating 3 as a label
>>> ser
1.1    1
2.1    2
3.0    5
4.1    4
dtype: int64

The ser[5] = 5 case is an outlier because instead of having its label-vs-positional behavior determined by ser.index._should_fallback_to_positional, it is defermined by if is_integer(key) and not self.index.inferred_type == "integer":