I created a dataframe as :
df1 = pandas.read_csv(ifile_name, header=None, sep=r"\s+", usecols=[0,1,2,3,4],
index_col=[0,1,2], names=["year", "month", "day", "something1", "something2"])
now I would like to create another dataframe where year>2008. Hence I tried :
df2 = df1[df1.year>2008]
But getting error :
AttributeError: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'year'
I guess, it is not seeing the "year" among the columns because I defined it within index. But how can I get data based on year>2008 in that case?
You are correct that year
is an index rather than a column. One solution is to use pd.DataFrame.query
, which lets you use index names directly:
df = pd.DataFrame({'year': [2005, 2010, 2015], 'value': [1, 2, 3]})
df = df.set_index('year')
res = df.query('year > 2008')
print(res)
value
year
2010 2
2015 3