Why do I have this result: SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument

Question

sub4 = sub4.melt(id_vars = 'Sort_order','year'
                           ,var_name= 'sex'
                           ,value_name= "International_migrant_stock_at_mid-year")

I try to melt the dataframe to separate sex and migrant stock. I think my codes look fine but it just keeps giving me the syntax error. Does anyone know how to fix it?

You are missing the required `frame` argument. – Frank Yellin Nov 06 '22 at 05:32 — Frank Yellin, Nov 06 '22 at 05:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 06 '22 at 05:35

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need [ ] for id_vars

sub4 = sub4.melt(
    id_vars=['Sort_order', 'year'], 
    var_name='sex',
    value_name="International_migrant_stock_at_mid-year"
)

answered Nov 06 '22 at 05:35

Khai Kim

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Why do I have this result: SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument

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