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/Users/brianp/work/cyan/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py:128: SettingWithCopyWarning:
A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame Temporal?

See the caveats in the documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy

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This is a very common warning from pandas. It means you are writing in a copy slice, not the
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2 I was about to post the same thing. A logical "one-liner" is better than unnecessary lines. – tnknepp Jun 15 based on column values
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0 When I change part of the dataframe to a
1 Isn't there a straight forward way to return a new df with the columns edited, and leave the original specific value, a 'SettingWithCopyWarning'
unchanged? – user48956 Jul 5 '17 at 18:42 appears

9 A lot of people say this is the correct way, and this is the way I go with as well. However, sometimes I get 0 Python Pandas Plot Warning
the warning anyway saying I'm setting values on a copy and advices me to use .loc when I'm already
using. Anyone experienced the same thing? – Calvin Ku Oct 20 '17 at 3:34
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6 @CalvinKu, yes! I am getting the same warning when doing what it is asking me to do! IMO, this is
ambiguous behavior and should go down as a bug, but the Pandas people are tired of hearing about it, so Can anyone give me an example of a Unique
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3 It's interesting that sometimes I get this and it won't go away no matter how I refactor it. But then when I
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of pandas isn't very robust so you see false positives like this once in a while. But what bugs me is it why did the Jews want to throw stones at Jesus
seems like it doesn't happen to some people so they are convinced that it's your code that is wrong...haha for saying this?
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