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How to define a function that calculates the BMI from dataframe
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I need to define a function that will calculate and return out of dataframe that includes columns "Height" and "Weight", the BMI of each row.

Here is the code that i wrote:

def BMI(DataFrame):
    df=pd.DataFrame
    return 'Weight'/'Height'**2
But when I try to run that function with:
data.apply(BMI,axis=1)
when "data" is my dataframe,

the result is an error:
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<input>", line 1, in <module> File "D:\Python Projects\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 6487, in apply return op.get_result() File "D:\Python Projects\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\apply.py", line 151, in get_result return self.apply_standard() File "D:\Python Projects\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\apply.py", line 257, in apply_standard self.apply_series_generator() File "D:\Python Projects\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\apply.py", line 286, in apply_series_generator results[i] = self.f(v) File "<input>", line 3, in BMI TypeError: ("'type' object is not subscriptable", 'occurred at index 0')
What went wrong with my code?
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How to define a function that calculates the BMI from dataframe - by DavidGG - May-30-2019, 01:53 PM

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