whatsnew

Author: h-vetinari

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -500,6 +500,7 @@ Other API Changes
 - :class:`Index` subtraction will attempt to operate element-wise instead of raising ``TypeError`` (:issue:`19369`)
 - :class:`pandas.io.formats.style.Styler` supports a ``number-format`` property when using :meth:`~pandas.io.formats.style.Styler.to_excel` (:issue:`22015`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.corr` and :meth:`Series.corr` now raise a ``ValueError`` along with a helpful error message instead of a ``KeyError`` when supplied with an invalid method (:issue:`22298`)
+- :meth:`DataFrame.set_index` now raises a ``TypeError`` for incorrect types, has an improved ``KeyError`` message, and will not fail on duplicate column names with ``drop=True``. (:issue:`22484`)
 
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