from SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22178642/assignment-modification-of-values-in-an-indexed-subframe-in-pandas ``` data = {'me':list('rttti'),'foo': list('aaade'), 'bar': arange(5)*1.34+2, 'bar2': arange(5)*-.34+2} df = pd.DataFrame(data).set_index('me') df.loc['r',['bar','bar2']]*=2.0 df.loc['t','bar']*=2.5 df.loc['t',['bar','bar2']]*=2.0 ```