.. ipython:: python :suppress: import pandas as pd import numpy as np pd.options.display.max_rows = 8 url = 'https://raw.github.com/pydata/pandas/master/pandas/tests/data/tips.csv' tips = pd.read_csv(url) UPDATE ------ .. code-block:: sql UPDATE tips SET tip = tip*2 WHERE tip < 2; .. ipython:: python tips tips.loc[tips['tip'] < 2, 'tip'] *= 2 tips