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Checking whether a Pandas object is a view or a copy
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To check whether a Pandas object is a view or a copy, use the _is_view property like so:
Here, the head(~) method performs slicing under the hood, and so it is unpredictable whether a view or a copy is returned. Using _is_view comes in handy for these scenarios.
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