Pandas selecting by label sometimes return Series, sometimes returns DataFrame

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Granted that the behavior is inconsistent, but I think it’s easy to imagine cases where this is convenient. Anyway, to get a DataFrame every time, just pass a list to loc. There are other ways, but in my opinion this is the cleanest.

In [2]: type(df.loc[[3]])
Out[2]: pandas.core.frame.DataFrame

In [3]: type(df.loc[[1]])
Out[3]: pandas.core.frame.DataFrame

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