prefer iloc or loc rather than ix

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Metadata

ID: python-pandas/loc-not-ix

Language: Python

Severity: Info

Category: Best Practices

Description

The functions notna and notnull are similar. However, this is a best practice to use notna since other methods use the same naming patterns.

Non-Compliant Code Examples

index = df.iat[:, 1:3]

index = df.at[:, ['B', 'A']]

s = df.ix[[0, 2], 'A']

Compliant Code Examples

new_df = df.iloc[]

How to use this rule

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

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