Pandas iloc vs direct slicing?

Question

I've read a lot of discussion about iloc vs loc and I understand the difference but what I don't understand is what's the difference between:

indexed_data['var'][0:10]

vs

indexed_data['var'].iloc[0:10]

These seem to be the same thing and give the same output.

Am I missing something? Thanks!

Answer 1

As a complement to the other answers, also observe the following note from the docs:

While standard Python / Numpy expressions for selecting and setting are intuitive and come in handy for interactive work, for production code, we recommend the optimized pandas data access methods, .at, .iat, .loc and .iloc.