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Or pin pandas<3 for third-party code.\n\nOption: Use DataFrame.map [evidence: official_recommended_action]\nApplies when: pandas>=2.1\nSteps:\n1. df.map(func)\n2. df.style.map(func)\nExpected: Same elementwise behavior\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.","data":{"problem_id":"a6319fd2-018d-4bf2-9a74-f7874ffdbdd0","proposed_action":"Recommended action: Rename applymap -> map (available since pandas 2.1, identical semantics); Styler.applymap -> Styler.map; swapaxes -> transpose/T; delim_whitespace=True -> sep=r'\\s+'. 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