Equivalent to the Excel fill handle

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

df.col_name.fill_down(val, start_row = 0, end_row= end)
df.loc[row_idx].fill_right(val, start_col = 0, end_col = last)

Problem description

It would be nice if there were an analog for the excel fill handle. I am not an experienced programmer and I don't want to imply that I think the functionality should be implemented the way I suggest above, but it would be nice to have for those coming from excel to pandas. If the val were a list, maybe it could fill repeats of the list like the fill series works in excel.

Expected Output

Filled values from the desired start column/row to the end or otherwise declared column/row

[svenharris]

I think that's a really interesting analogy, but I think you can get that functionality in a straightforward fashion using .iloc and other basic indexing operations

[TomAugspurger]

Agreed with @svenharris.

If anyone is interested, this would make for a nice cookbook entry: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/cookbook.html

We could perhaps expand those into a "Comparison with Excel" page, or "pandas for excel users".

[rotuna]

Hi,

I would like to do this.

[simonjayhawkins]

closed in #38554