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sharuraut7
sharuraut7

Reputation: 7

How should I solve this DataFrame object is not callable error?

ohe = OneHotEncoder(sparse=False)
ohe.fit_transform(file(['Areas of interest']))

I am getting the error:

TypeError: 'DataFrame' object is not callable

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10357

Answers (1)

sns
sns

Reputation: 385

As implied by the error message that you get, file is probably a pandas DataFrame. Inside fit_transform() you have written:

file(['Areas of interest'])

while the correct would have been:

file['Areas of interest']

The extra parentheses in the first case cause the error you receive because file is not a function but a data frame. You do not call data frames (using parentheses means that you are trying to pass an argument to a function), but you access their contents by indexing them (using square brackets [] with the name of a column as an argument).

Indexing can be done in many other ways. Refer to the pandas user manual for more details.

Upvotes: 2

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