Confusing Terminology on the Pandas chapter ##Index alignment in DataFrame

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Confusing Terminology on the Pandas chapter ##Index alignment in DataFrame #172

Open 2313499 opened 5 years ago

2313499 commented 5 years ago

I was having a very hard time figuring out

fill = A.stack().mean()
A.add(B, fill_value=fill)

fill = 4.5. However I computed a value of 3.2 because I was taking the mean from the column of A not the DataFrame A. This coming after the Indexing chapter where "explicit is better than implicit." I was thinking that this should be a little more explicit.

nikhilrsharma commented 4 years ago

I did not find this confusing at all