Pandas Indexing-View-Versus-Copy - python-3.x

I have a dataframe with several columns.
Later, a column titled 'Active' is added.
If the 'Volume' column contains anything greater than 0, I need to set 'Active' to 1.
This is a simple example of how I've attempted it:
import pandas as pd
active_df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['Volume'])
active_df['Volume'] = 0, 0, 22, 22, 0, 22, 0, 22, 0, 22
active_df['Active'] = 0
active_df['Active'].loc[active_df['Volume'] > 0] = 1
print(active_df)
Although this produces the expected results, I constantly get a warning: "A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame"
I have read the referenced page: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#indexing-view-versus-copy but still can't solve this.
I thought that I had dealt with this in other code and resolved it, but I can't find an example in existing code.

I rediscovered this question after it being up for a year after a recent upvote.
Having learned a lot more about Pandas since it was asked, I thought I'd revisit the difference in my 'copy of a slice' and the solution.
My original attempt was:
active_df['Active'].loc[active_df['Volume'] > 0] = 1
Which was really a convoluted way at best.
First I'm gettting boolean values for active_df['Volume'] > 0
And then where the row value is TRUE, I'm setting the slice active_df['Active'] to 1.
Although this worked, there was uncertainty in whether this was a view or copy of the dataframe.
The solution was:
active_df.loc[active_df['Volume'] > 0, 'Active'] = 1
In the active_df dataframe, locate the rows where active_df['Volume'] > 0, and the column 'Active', and set those values to 1.
Or stated a different way: Set a value of 1 for the 'Active' column for the rows that have a value of 0 in the 'Volume' column.
So you are really working on the whole dataframe (active_df.loc) instead of the slice and possible copy (active_df['Active'].loc)
Thank you again to #Deena for providing the solution.

I believe that the copies and views internals are different from through the verions, since I don't get that warning using 0.20.3.
I would totally understand if the latest releases would move some of the Views operations to copies, given the volume of confusions and possible bugs that caused.
The safest option for all the versions is:
active_df.loc[active_df['Volume'] > 0, 'Active'] = 1
And you can always double check if the filtered dataframe is a copy or a view:
active_df['Active'].loc[active_df['Volume'] > 0].is_view

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Code (the df source data is an imported csv):
#top x debits/credits
i = 0
ii = 0
for ind in df.index:
if df["DB/CR"][ind] == "Debit":
i = i+1
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elif df["DB/CR"][ind] == "Credit":
ii = ii+1
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Interpreter
df["Top x"][ind] = i
G:\Finances Backup\venv\Statementsv.03.py:173: SettingWithCopyWarning:
A value is trying to be set on a copy of a slice from a DataFrame
See the caveats in the documentation: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/indexing.html#returning-a-view-versus-a-copy
df["Top x"][ind] = ii
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You should use df.loc["DB/CR", ind] = "Debit"
Use iterrows() to iterate over the DF. However, updating DF while iterating is not preferable
see documentation here
Refer to the documentation here Iterrows()
You should never modify something you are iterating over. This is not
guaranteed to work in all cases. Depending on the data types, the
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