Checking whether data frame is copy or view in Pandas

Question

Is there an easy way to check whether two data frames are different copies or views of the same underlying data that doesn\'t involve manipulations? I\'m trying to get a gri

Answer 1

Answers from HYRY and Marius in comments!

One can check either by:

• testing equivalence of the values.base attribute rather than the values attribute, as in:

  df.values.base is df2.values.base instead of df.values is df2.values.

• or using the (admittedly internal) _is_view attribute (df2._is_view is True).

Thanks everyone!