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BUG: If both index and axis are passed to DataFrame.drop, raise a clear error #61855

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@khemkaran10 khemkaran10 changed the title Both index and axis are passed to drop() it will raise a better error FIX BUG: If both index and axis are passed to drop(), it will raise ValueError with clear message. Jul 14, 2025
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@camriddell I have made the changes.

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Can @rhshadrach take a look and provide some guidance? If we want to maintain backwards compat. then this is likely the final form of this PR.

However there is a deeper issue that is not present in either (thanks for finding these @khemkaran10) DataFrame.reindex, DataFrame.rename. Namely, those methods have a default of axis=None and can therefore check when that value is passed, whereas in .drop the axis argument defaults to axis=0 thus making it always "set". So we can check for axis==1 as @khemkaran10 did in the PR (or axis != 0).

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LGTM cc @rhshadrach

@rhshadrach rhshadrach changed the title FIX BUG: If both index and axis are passed to drop(), it will raise ValueError with clear message. BUG: If both index and axis are passed to DataFrame.drop, raise a clear error Jul 18, 2025
@rhshadrach rhshadrach added Bug Error Reporting Incorrect or improved errors from pandas labels Jul 18, 2025
@rhshadrach rhshadrach merged commit 6a6a1ba into pandas-dev:main Jul 18, 2025
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Thanks @khemkaran10!

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