Pandas: renaming Series.name

Question

Given:

import pandas as pd

s = pd.Series(name="myname")

When:
I want to rename it to newname2

Then:
why should I use s.rename("newname2") instead of s.name = "newname2" ?

Answer 1

Both approaches are fine. the rename function has more functionality than just changing the name attribute of your pd.Series object, you could actually change the label of your indexes.

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