FIX-#4672: Fix incorrect warning when setting frame.columns or frame.index

docs/release_notes/release_notes-0.16.0.rst

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Key Features and Updates
   * FIX-#4491: Wait for all partitions in parallel in benchmark mode (#4656)
   * FIX-#4358: MultiIndex `loc` shouldn't drop levels for full-key lookups (#4608)
   * FIX-#4658: Expand exception handling for `read_*` functions from s3 storages (#4659)
+  * FIX-#4672: Fix incorrect warning when setting `frame.index` or `frame.columns` (#4721)
 * Performance enhancements
   * PERF-#4182: Add cell-wise execution for binary ops, fix bin ops for empty dataframes (#4391)
   * PERF-#4288: Improve perf of `groupby.mean` for narrow data (#4591)

modin/pandas/dataframe.py

@@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ def __setattr__(self, key, value):
             # `__getattr__` will return the columns not present in `dir(self)`, so we do not need
             # to manually track this state in the `dir`.
             return
-        elif is_list_like(value):
+        elif is_list_like(value) and key not in ["index", "columns"]:
             warnings.warn(
                 "Modin doesn't allow columns to be created via a new attribute name - see "
                 + "https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#attribute-access",

modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_default.py

@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@
 import pandas
 import matplotlib
 import modin.pandas as pd
-from modin.utils import to_pandas
+from modin.utils import (
+    to_pandas,
+    get_current_execution,
+)
 from numpy.testing import assert_array_equal
 import io
+import warnings
 
 from modin.pandas.test.utils import (
     df_equals,
@@ -1171,3 +1175,19 @@ def test_hasattr_sparse(is_sparse_data):
         else create_test_dfs(test_data["float_nan_data"])
     )
     eval_general(modin_df, pandas_df, lambda df: hasattr(df, "sparse"))
+
+
+def test_setattr_axes():
+    # Test that setting .index or .columns does not warn
+    df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2], [3, 4]])
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        if get_current_execution() != "BaseOnPython":
+            # In BaseOnPython, setting columns raises a warning because get_axis
+            #  defaults to pandas.
+            warnings.simplefilter("error")
+        df.index = ["foo", "bar"]
+        df.columns = [9, 10]
+
+    # Check that ensure_index was called
+    pandas.testing.assert_index_equal(df.index, pandas.Index(["foo", "bar"]))
+    pandas.testing.assert_index_equal(df.columns, pandas.Index([9, 10]))