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#  pandas.Index.symmetric_difference  #

Index.  symmetric_difference  (  _ other  _ , _ result_name  =  None  _ , _
sort  =  None  _ )  [ [source]  ](https://github.com/pandas-
dev/pandas/blob/v2.2.2/pandas/core/indexes/base.py#L3679-L3758) #

    

Compute the symmetric difference of two Index objects.

Parameters  :

    

**other** Index or array-like

    
**result_name** str

    
**sort** bool or None, default None

    

Whether to sort the resulting index. By default, the values are attempted to
be sorted, but any TypeError from incomparable elements is caught by pandas.

  * None : Attempt to sort the result, but catch any TypeErrors from comparing incomparable elements. 

  * False : Do not sort the result. 

  * True : Sort the result (which may raise TypeError). 

Returns  :

    

Index

    

Notes

` symmetric_difference  ` contains elements that appear in either ` idx1  ` or ` idx2  ` but not both. Equivalent to the Index created by ` idx1.difference(idx2)  |  idx2.difference(idx1)  ` with duplicates dropped. 

Examples

    
    
    >>> idx1 = pd.Index([1, 2, 3, 4])
    >>> idx2 = pd.Index([2, 3, 4, 5])
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