BUG: Assigning column with tuple as name from groupby fails · Issue #49121 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd from pandas import Timestamp

df = pd.DataFrame( {('T1', 'T2'): {('N', Timestamp('2022-10-10')): 19}} ) df.index = df.index.set_names(['Symbol', 'Date'])

grp = df.groupby('Symbol') col_name = df.columns[0] df[col_name] = grp[[col_name]].shift()

Issue Description

Assigning column from groups to a multiindex fails when column name is a tuple. No issues with non-tuple types. Seems to work normally with a single index.

File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py:3968, in DataFrame.__setitem__(self, key, value)
   3966     self._setitem_array(key, value)
   3967 elif isinstance(value, DataFrame):
-> 3968     self._set_item_frame_value(key, value)
   3969 elif (
   3970     is_list_like(value)
   3971     and not self.columns.is_unique
   3972     and 1 < len(self.columns.get_indexer_for([key])) == len(value)
   3973 ):
   3974     # Column to set is duplicated
   3975     self._setitem_array([key], value)

File ~/.pyenv/versions/3.9.13/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py:4098, in DataFrame._set_item_frame_value(self, key, value)
   4096 len_cols = 1 if is_scalar(cols) else len(cols)
   4097 if len_cols != len(value.columns):
-> 4098     raise ValueError("Columns must be same length as key")
   4100 # align right-hand-side columns if self.columns
   4101 # is multi-index and self[key] is a sub-frame
   4102 if isinstance(self.columns, MultiIndex) and isinstance(
   4103     loc, (slice, Series, np.ndarray, Index)
   4104 ):

ValueError: Columns must be same length as key

Expected Behavior

No exception being thrown, column assigned normally.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 87cfe4epython : 3.9.13.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 5.15.60-1-MANJARO Version : #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 11 13:14:05 UTC 2022 machine : x86_64 processor : byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_GB.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_GB.UTF-8

pandas : 1.5.0 and 1.6.0.dev0+345.g90b4add77
numpy : 1.22.4
pytz : 2022.2.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 65.3.0
pip : 22.2.2
Cython : 3.0.0a11
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.9.1
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.4.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.11.1
bottleneck : None
brotli : 1.0.9
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.6.0
numba : 0.56.2
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 9.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.9.1
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : None