Differences in behaviour between R and python #1
Description
A chapter on surprises in store for R users when working in python would be useful. This could have subsections on things like indexing etc.
For example, I was just caught out by the following code:
ser = pd.Series([1, 2], dtype='int32')
ser[0:8]
This does not error, not does it fill out the Series but quietly ignores what the user is asking.
Especially annoying with a large Series. I am using ipython in emacs, so there might be some quirks there but I printed a series of length 120, and it helpfully numbered the rows. The last few rows were numbered 150 to 154 but were actually ended in 110.