Iloc Giving 'IndexError: Single Positional Indexer Is Out-Of-Bounds'

300    Asked by Amitjaisawal in Python , Asked on Nov 17, 2022

I am trying to encode some information to read into a Machine Learning model using the following

import numpy as np

import pandas as pd

import matplotlib.pyplot as py

Dataset = pd.read_csv('filename.csv', sep = ',')
X = Dataset.iloc[:,:-1].values
Y = Dataset.iloc[:,18].values
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, OneHotEncoder
labelencoder_X = LabelEncoder()
X[:, 0] = labelencoder_X.fit_transform(X[:, 0])
onehotencoder = OneHotEncoder(categorical_features = [0])
X = onehotencoder.fit_transform(X).toarray()
however, I am getting an error that reads
runfile('C:/Users/name/Desktop/Machine Learning/Data preprocessing      template.py', wdir='C:/Users/taylorr2/Desktop/Machine Learning')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
    runfile('C:/Users/name/Desktop/Machine Learning/Data preprocessing  template.py', wdir='C:/Users/taylorr2/Desktop/Machine Learning')
IndexError: single positional indexer is out-of-bounds
I read a question on here regarding the same error and have tried
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as py
Dataset = pd.read_csv('filename.csv', sep = ',')
table = Dataset.find(id='AlerId')
rows = table.find_all('tr')[1:]
data = [[cell.text for cell in row.find_all('td')] for row in rows]
Dataset1 = pd.DataFrame(data=data, columns=columns)
X = Dataset1.iloc[:,:-1].values
Y = Dataset1.iloc[:,18].values
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, OneHotEncoder
labelencoder_X = LabelEncoder()
X[:, 0] = labelencoder_X.fit_transform(X[:, 0])
onehotencoder = OneHotEncoder(categorical_features = [0])
X = onehotencoder.fit_transform(X).toarray()
However, I think this might have just confused me more and now am in even more of a state.
Any suggestions?
Answered by Amit raj
The indexerror: single positional indexer is out-of-bounds is caused by:

Y = Dataset.iloc[:, 18].values

Indexing is out of bounds here most probably because there are less than 19 columns in your Dataset, so column 18 does not exist. The following code you provided doesn't use Y at all, so you can just comment out this line for now.



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