I considered that but thought this was enough of a gotcha that I wanted to
keep the warning right there with the problematic example.

But I am willing to be overruled.


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:01 PM, jreback <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In doc/source/indexing.rst:
>
> > @@ -206,15 +206,19 @@ as an attribute:
> >     dfa.A
> >     panel.one
> >
> > -Setting is allowed as well
> > +You can use attribute access to modify an existing element of a Series or column of a DataFrame, but be careful;
>
> maybe move these couple of lines to an actual .. warning:: see below
>
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