Set value for particular cell in pandas DataFrame using index

Question

I\'ve created a Pandas DataFrame

df = DataFrame(index=[\'A\',\'B\',\'C\'], columns=[\'x\',\'y\'])

and got this

    x    y
A  NaN         


        

Answer 1

.iat/.at is the good solution. Supposing you have this simple data_frame:

   A   B   C
0  1   8   4 
1  3   9   6
2  22 33  52

if we want to modify the value of the cell [0,"A"] u can use one of those solution :

1. df.iat[0,0] = 2
2. df.at[0,'A'] = 2

And here is a complete example how to use iat to get and set a value of cell :

def prepossessing(df):
  for index in range(0,len(df)): 
      df.iat[index,0] = df.iat[index,0] * 2
  return df

y_train before :

    0
0   54
1   15
2   15
3   8
4   31
5   63
6   11

y_train after calling prepossessing function that iat to change to multiply the value of each cell by 2:

     0
0   108
1   30
2   30
3   16
4   62
5   126
6   22