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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst
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- Bug in :meth:`groupby` does not offer implicit selection by column names when ``axis`` set to 1 (:issue:`27614)
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Should be DataFrame.groupby`

"does not offer" to "not offering"

"axis set to 1" to "axis=1"

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I'm also not sure what "implicit selection by column name" means here.

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I'm also not sure what "implicit selection by column name" means here.

ahh, my bad, i basically just copied and pasted the issue title, will change! @TomAugspurger thanks for your quick reply!


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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions pandas/core/groupby/grouper.py
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Expand Up @@ -606,10 +606,10 @@ def is_in_obj(gpr):
elif is_in_axis(gpr): # df.groupby('name')
if gpr in obj:
if validate:
obj._check_label_or_level_ambiguity(gpr)
obj._check_label_or_level_ambiguity(gpr, axis=axis)
in_axis, name, gpr = True, gpr, obj[gpr]
exclusions.append(name)
elif obj._is_level_reference(gpr):
elif obj._is_level_reference(gpr, axis=axis):
in_axis, name, level, gpr = False, None, gpr, None
else:
raise KeyError(gpr)
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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions pandas/tests/groupby/test_groupby.py
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result = df.groupby(["beta", pd.Grouper(level="alpha")])
expected = df.groupby(["beta", "alpha"])
assert result.groups == expected.groups


@pytest.mark.parametrize("group_name", ["x", ["x"]])
def test_groupby_axis_1(group_name):
# GH 27614
df = pd.DataFrame(
np.arange(12).reshape(3, 4), index=[0, 1, 0], columns=[10, 20, 10, 20]
)
df.index.name = "y"
df.columns.name = "x"

results = df.groupby(group_name, axis=1).sum()
expected = df.T.groupby(group_name).sum().T
assert_frame_equal(results, expected)