setting values in a dataframe with duplicated keys

[c-foschi]

I have a dataframe with duplicated keys, and I need to assign values to some column of that dataframe, for some different keys. Dataframe indexes support duplicated keys, so I assume that this kind of work should be easy, if not I don't see why dataframes should be allowed to have duplicated keys. Anyway, setting the values like this:

df.loc[key, 'column']= vector

gives me the following error:

ValueError: Must have equal len keys and value when setting with an iterable

even if the number of times key appears in the index of df is equal to the length of vector. I think this should be fixed.

Thank you,
c. foschi

[dsaxton]

@c-foschi Can you provide an example that can be copy / pasted which shows the problem? It seems that this functionality does work:

[ins] In [1]: df = pd.DataFrame([1, 2, 3], index=[1, 1, 2])                                                                                                                                                  

[ins] In [2]: df                                                                                                                                                                                             
Out[2]: 
   0
1  1
1  2
2  3

[ins] In [3]: df.loc[1, 0] = [9, 9]                                                                                                                                                                          

[ins] In [4]: df                                                                                                                                                                                             
Out[4]: 
   0
1  9
1  9
2  3

[c-foschi]

@dsaxton @MarcoGorelli I tried to reproduce the error with toy examples but I failed many times. Still, every time I run my code, the same error appears. Here it is, I hope it makes some sense to you:

In:

df= pd.read_csv('earthquake_signals.txt')
df.set_index('code', inplace= True)
df.index

Out:

Int64Index([6342156, 6342156, 6342156, 6342156, 6342156, 6342156, 6342156,
        6342156, 6342156, 6342156,
        ...
        1256211, 1256211, 1256211, 1256211, 1256211, 1256211, 1256211,
        1256211, 1256211, 1256211],
       dtype='int64', name='code', length=389750)

In:

len(df.loc[4848666, 'longitude'])

Out:

9

In:

df.loc[4848666, 'longitude']= np.arange(9)

Out:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-58-e7eaa328acef> in <module>
----> 1 df.loc[4848666, 'longitude']= np.arange(9)

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexing.py in __setitem__(self, key, value)
    188             key = com.apply_if_callable(key, self.obj)
    189         indexer = self._get_setitem_indexer(key)
--> 190         self._setitem_with_indexer(indexer, value)
    191 
    192     def _validate_key(self, key, axis):

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexing.py in _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value)
    609 
    610                     if len(labels) != len(value):
--> 611                         raise ValueError('Must have equal len keys and value '
    612                                          'when setting with an iterable')
    613 

ValueError: Must have equal len keys and value when setting with an iterable

[MarcoGorelli]

What version of pandas are you using?

[c-foschi]

from pd.__version__ it appears that it is version 0.24.2. May be outdated actually.

[MarcoGorelli]

Yes, please upgrade to the latest version (1.0.3)

[c-foschi]

Done. Same error occurs:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-e7eaa328acef> in <module>
----> 1 df.loc[4848666, 'longitude']= np.arange(9)

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexing.py in __setitem__(self, key, value)
    669             key = com.apply_if_callable(key, self.obj)
    670         indexer = self._get_setitem_indexer(key)
--> 671         self._setitem_with_indexer(indexer, value)
    672 
    673     def _validate_key(self, key, axis: int):

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexing.py in _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value)
   1017                     if len(labels) != len(value):
   1018                         raise ValueError(
-> 1019                             "Must have equal len keys and value "
   1020                             "when setting with an iterable"
   1021                         )

ValueError: Must have equal len keys and value when setting with an iterable

[MarcoGorelli]

OK, once you read in 'earthquake_signals.txt', can you try making the dataframe as small as possible (by only considering a subset of all rows) such that the error reproduces, and then post here a reproducible example using that data?

[c-foschi]

ok I finally managed to create a toy examples with random values:

I have a file like this:

code,longitude,date
6342156,0.966747,a
6342156,0.756199,b
6342156,0.054222,c
6342156,0.743996,d
6342156,0.486753,a
6342156,0.464093,s
6342156,0.430592,d
2261019,0.827252,f
2261019,0.864456,f
2261019,0.866847,d

And my code is:

X= pd.read_csv('toy.csv')
X.set_index('code', inplace= True)
X.loc[2261019, 'longitude']= np.arange(3)

This raises the error to me.

I should probably add that without the string column everything worked.

[MarcoGorelli]

Great, thanks @c-foschi ! This reproduces

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from io import StringIO

X = pd.read_csv(
    StringIO(
        """code,longitude,date
6342156,0.966747,a
6342156,0.756199,b
6342156,0.054222,c
6342156,0.743996,d
6342156,0.486753,a
6342156,0.464093,s
6342156,0.430592,d
2261019,0.827252,f
2261019,0.864456,f
2261019,0.866847,d"""
    )
)
X.set_index("code", inplace=True)
X.loc[2261019, "longitude"] = np.arange(3)

[CloseChoice]

Seems for me to work on master:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from io import StringIO

X = pd.read_csv(
    StringIO(
        """code,longitude,date
6342156,0.966747,a
6342156,0.756199,b
6342156,0.054222,c
6342156,0.743996,d
6342156,0.486753,a
6342156,0.464093,s
6342156,0.430592,d
2261019,0.827252,f
2261019,0.864456,f
2261019,0.866847,d"""
    )
)
X.set_index("code", inplace=True)
X.loc[2261019, "longitude"] = np.arange(3)
print(X)
# result
         longitude date
code                   
6342156   0.966747    a
6342156   0.756199    b
6342156   0.054222    c
6342156   0.743996    d
6342156   0.486753    a
6342156   0.464093    s
6342156   0.430592    d
2261019   0.000000    f
2261019   1.000000    f
2261019   2.000000    d
# check version
pd.__version__
'1.1.0.dev0+1502.g3ed7dff48

Do we need a test?