DOC: add sections about big new features (CoW, string dtype) to 3.0.0 whatsnew notes #61724
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| how pandas operates with respect to copies and views. A summary of the changes: | ||
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| 1. The result of *any* indexing operation (subsetting a DataFrame or Series in any way, | ||
| i.e. including accessing a DataFrame column as a Series) or any method returning a |
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| i.e. including accessing a DataFrame column as a Series) or any method returning a | |
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I am going to keep the current wording here because I specifically wanted to highlight that accessing a column is also an indexing operation (people might think first about selecting rows, boolean filtering etc, but accessing a column is probably the most common (and most affected) case)
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Going to merge this to have something in the docs, we can always further refine it so more feedback is certainly welcome! |
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We don't actually yet list the bigger features (string dtype, CoW, no silent downcasting) in the 3.0.0 whatsnew page, so starting to do that here.
Already pushed a section about string dtype, will further add a section about CoW and the downcasting.