Python “TypeError: unhashable type: 'slice'” for encoding categorical data

Question

I am getting

TypeError: unhashable type: \'slice\'

when executing the below code for encoding categorical data in Python. Can a

Answer 1

use Values either while creating variable X or while encoding as mentioned above

# Importing the libraries
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

# Importing the dataset
# dataset = pd.read_csv('50_Startups.csv')

dataset = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(10, 10))
y=dataset.iloc[:, 4].values
X=dataset.iloc[:, 0:4].values