How can I select rows except last row of one column?

Question

I'd like to select one column only but all the rows except last row.

If I did it like below, the result is empty.

a = data_vaf.loc[:-1, 'Area']

Answer 1

loc:location
iloc:index location.

They just can't operate implicitly.

Therefore we exclude last raw by iloc then select the column Area As shown by the comment from @ThePyGuy

data_vaf.iloc[:-1]['Area']

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Here's the structure of iloc[row, column]

And iloc[row] do the same thing as iloc[row,:]
df.iloc[:-1] do the same thing as df[:-1]