Avoid using inplace=True

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ID: python-pandas/avoid-inplace

Language: Python

Severity: Warning

Category: Best Practices

Avoid using inplace=True as it does not have clear performance impact and is potentially dangerous and does not behave as it should.

df.drop(['a'], axis=1, inplace=True)

df.drop(['a'], axis=1, inplace=False)

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rulesets:
  - python-pandas     # Rules to enforce Python pandas.

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