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Typo in pandas tutorial 1? #287

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@davidmcnamee

Hey, I was just going through the pandas tutorial and wasn't sure whether this is a typo or if I'm misunderstanding.

"Why the change? Remember that loc can index any stdlib type: strings, for example. If we have a DataFrame with index values `Apples, ..., Potatoes, ...`, and we want to select \"all the alphabetical fruit choices between Apples and Potatoes\", then it's a lot more convenient to index `df.loc['Apples':'Potatoes']` than it is to index something like `df.loc['Apples', 'Potatoet]` (`t` coming after `s` in the alphabet).\n",

it's a lot more convenient to index df.loc['Apples':'Potatoes'] than it is to index something like df.loc['Apples', 'Potatoet] (t coming after s in the alphabet)

Should the second code snippet be df.iloc['Apples':'Potatoes']? It was just explained that df.iloc[0:10] gives you indices 0,...,9 but df.loc[0:10] gives you indices 0,...,10; and then I wasn't sure how they got df.loc['Apples', 'Potatoet].

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