BUG: "ValueError: The truth value ... is ambiguous" when using .loc setitem · Issue #48614 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-58528b0c1243> in <module>
----> 1 s.loc['new_label'] = df

.../site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in __setitem__(self, key, value)
    817 
    818         iloc = self if self.name == "iloc" else self.obj.iloc
--> 819         iloc._setitem_with_indexer(indexer, value, self.name)
    820 
    821     def _validate_key(self, key, axis: int):

.../site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value, name)
   1784 
   1785             if missing:
-> 1786                 self._setitem_with_indexer_missing(indexer, value)
   1787                 return
   1788 

.../site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _setitem_with_indexer_missing(self, indexer, value)
   2114                 value = na_value_for_dtype(self.obj.dtype, compat=False)
   2115                 new_dtype = maybe_promote(self.obj.dtype, value)[0]
-> 2116             elif isna(value):
   2117                 new_dtype = None
   2118             elif not self.obj.empty and not is_object_dtype(self.obj.dtype):

.../site-packages/pandas/core/generic.py in __nonzero__(self)
   1524     @final
   1525     def __nonzero__(self) -> NoReturn:
-> 1526         raise ValueError(
   1527             f"The truth value of a {type(self).__name__} is ambiguous. "
   1528             "Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all()."

ValueError: The truth value of a DataFrame is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().

No crash.