Set values on the diagonal of pandas.DataFrame

Question

I have a pandas dataframe I would like to se the diagonal to 0

import numpy
import pandas

df = pandas.DataFrame(numpy.random.rand(5,5))
df

Out[6]:
     0           


        

Answer 1

Here is a hack that worked for me:

def set_diag(self, values): 
    n = min(len(self.index), len(self.columns))
    self.values[[np.arange(n)] * 2] = values
pd.DataFrame.set_diag = set_diag

x = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10, 5))
x.set_diag(0)