pandas Indexing and selecting data Mixed position and label based selection
Example
DataFrame:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(5)
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(100, size=(5, 5)), columns = list("ABCDE"),
index = ["R" + str(i) for i in range(5)])
df
Out[12]:
A B C D E
R0 99 78 61 16 73
R1 8 62 27 30 80
R2 7 76 15 53 80
R3 27 44 77 75 65
R4 47 30 84 86 18
Select rows by position, and columns by label:
df.ix[1:3, 'C':'E']
Out[19]:
C D E
R1 5 58 0
R2 36 51 27
If the index is integer, .ix will use labels rather than positions:
df.index = np.arange(5, 10)
df
Out[22]:
A B C D E
5 9 41 62 1 82
6 16 78 5 58 0
7 80 4 36 51 27
8 31 2 68 38 83
9 19 18 7 30 62
#same call returns an empty DataFrame because now the index is integer
df.ix[1:3, 'C':'E']
Out[24]:
Empty DataFrame
Columns: [C, D, E]
Index: []
