Fix regression in iloc with boolean list

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.4.rst

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Fixed regressions
 - Fixed regression where slicing :class:`DatetimeIndex` raised :exc:`AssertionError` on irregular time series with ``pd.NaT`` or on unsorted indices (:issue:`36953` and :issue:`35509`)
 - Fixed regression in certain offsets (:meth:`pd.offsets.Day() <pandas.tseries.offsets.Day>` and below) no longer being hashable (:issue:`37267`)
 - Fixed regression in :class:`StataReader` which required ``chunksize`` to be manually set when using an iterator to read a dataset (:issue:`37280`)
+- Fixed regression in setitem with :meth:`DataFrame.iloc` which raised error when trying to set a value while filtering with a boolean list (:issue:`36741`)
 - Fixed regression in :attr:`MultiIndex.is_monotonic_increasing` returning wrong results with ``NaN`` in at least one of the levels (:issue:`37220`)
 
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pandas/core/indexing.py

@@ -1670,8 +1670,6 @@ def _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value):
                         "length than the value"
                     )
 
-            pi = plane_indexer[0] if lplane_indexer == 1 else plane_indexer
-
             # we need an iterable, with a ndim of at least 1
             # eg. don't pass through np.array(0)
             if is_list_like_indexer(value) and getattr(value, "ndim", 1) > 0:
@@ -1698,7 +1696,7 @@ def _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value):
                             else:
                                 v = np.nan
 
-                            self._setitem_single_column(loc, v, pi)
+                            self._setitem_single_column(loc, v, plane_indexer)
 
                     elif not unique_cols:
                         raise ValueError(
@@ -1716,7 +1714,7 @@ def _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value):
                             else:
                                 v = np.nan
 
-                            self._setitem_single_column(loc, v, pi)
+                            self._setitem_single_column(loc, v, plane_indexer)
 
                 # we have an equal len ndarray/convertible to our labels
                 # hasattr first, to avoid coercing to ndarray without reason.
@@ -1735,7 +1733,9 @@ def _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value):
 
                     for i, loc in enumerate(ilocs):
                         # setting with a list, re-coerces
-                        self._setitem_single_column(loc, value[:, i].tolist(), pi)
+                        self._setitem_single_column(
+                            loc, value[:, i].tolist(), plane_indexer
+                        )
 
                 elif (
                     len(labels) == 1
@@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ def _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value):
                 ):
                     # we have an equal len list/ndarray
                     # We only get here with len(labels) == len(ilocs) == 1
-                    self._setitem_single_column(ilocs[0], value, pi)
+                    self._setitem_single_column(ilocs[0], value, plane_indexer)
 
                 elif lplane_indexer == 0 and len(value) == len(self.obj.index):
                     # We get here in one case via .loc with a all-False mask
@@ -1759,12 +1759,12 @@ def _setitem_with_indexer(self, indexer, value):
                         )
 
                     for loc, v in zip(ilocs, value):
-                        self._setitem_single_column(loc, v, pi)
+                        self._setitem_single_column(loc, v, plane_indexer)
             else:
 
                 # scalar value
                 for loc in ilocs:
-                    self._setitem_single_column(loc, value, pi)
+                    self._setitem_single_column(loc, value, plane_indexer)
 
         else:
             self._setitem_single_block(indexer, value)

pandas/tests/frame/indexing/test_setitem.py

@@ -229,3 +229,12 @@ def test_setitem_periodindex(self):
         rs = df.reset_index().set_index("index")
         assert isinstance(rs.index, PeriodIndex)
         tm.assert_index_equal(rs.index, rng)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("klass", [list, np.array])
+    def test_iloc_setitem_bool_indexer(self, klass):
+        # GH: 36741
+        df = DataFrame({"flag": ["x", "y", "z"], "value": [1, 3, 4]})
+        indexer = klass([True, False, False])
+        df.iloc[indexer, 1] = df.iloc[indexer, 1] * 2
+        expected = DataFrame({"flag": ["x", "y", "z"], "value": [2, 3, 4]})
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(df, expected)