pandas - how to access cell in pandas, equivalent of df[3,4] in R

Question

If I have a pandas DataFrame object, how do I simply access a cell? In R, assuming my data.frame is called df, I can access the 3rd row and 4th column by

df[3,4] 

What is the equivalent in python?

Answer 1

You can use iloc (to get by position):

df.iloc[3,4] 

I recommend reading the indexing section of the docs.

Answer 2

If you want to access the cell based on the column and row labels, use at:

df.at["Year","Temperature"] 

This will return the cell intersected by the row "Year" and the column "Temperature".