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TypeError: 'Series' object is not callable when accessing dtypes of a dataframe

As it is [Duplicate], I have raised this to be removed. Kindly do not rollback.

Solution

  • There's no ambiguity here. file is a dataframe, and dtypes is an attribute.

    df
        productView  order
userId                    
A               4.5    5.0
B               1.5    2.5
C               4.0    2.0
D               2.0    3.0

df.dtypes
productView    float64
order          float64
dtype: object

    When you access dtypes, a Series is returned:

    type(df.dtypes)
pandas.core.series.Series

    When you call df.dtypes(), you are effectively doing series = df.dtype; series() which is invalid, since series is an object (not a function, or an object with __call__ defined).

    In the second case, dtype isn't even a valid attribute/method of df, and so an AttributeError is raised.

    TLDR; The first error is raised on the dtype series, the second is raised on the original dataframe df.