I am running the following code and I get ValueError: Columns must be same length as key as an error:

BECS_mapping[['length']] = BECS_mapping.Label.str.len()
BECS_mapping=BECS_mapping.sort_values('length', ascending=False)
BECS_mapping

the table this code is meant to work with is the following:

Database Name   Label
3BECSDriort Drilling & Drilling Support
3BECSExpion Exploration & Production
3BECSTheoal Thermal Coal
3BECSEleent Electrical Equipment
3BECSMideam Midstream
3BECSResITs Residential Owners & Developers   REITs
3BECSOffITs Office Owners & Developers   REITs
3BECSAiring Air Freight, Courier, Logistics and Trucking
3BECSAirnes Airlines
3BECSOilent Oilfield Services & Equipment
3BECSAlcges Alcoholic Beverages
3BECSSteers Steel Producers
3BECSComces Commercial Support Services
3BECSEngion Engineering & Construction
3BECSPlaing Plastic Containers & Packaging
3BECSTecnts Technology Hardware, Equipment and Components
3BECSDivals Diversified Industrials
3BECSPacood Packaged Food
3BECSRefing Refining & Marketing
3BECSMulITs Multi Asset Owners & Developers   REITs
3BECSFacent Factory Machinery & Equipment
3BECSRaices Rail Freight and Transit Services
3BECSEleist Electric Transmission & Dist
3BECSEMSODM EMS/ODM
3BECSConail Consumer Staples Retail
3BECSWasent Waste Management
3BECSWinent Wind Energy Equipment
3BECSCement Cement
3BECSAgrals Agricultural Chemicals
3BECSHotITs Hotel Owners & Developers  REITs
3BECSSolent Solar Energy Equipment
3BECSTraces Transport Operations & Services
3BECSPreing Precious Metals and Mineral & Precious Stone Mining
3BECSHeaITs Health Care Owners & Developers   REITs
3BECSBasals Basic & Diversified Chemicals
3BECSPaping Paper Containers & Packaging
3BECSSemors Semiconductors
3BECSRetITs Retail Owners & Developers   REITs
3BECSMaring Marine Shipping
3BECSIndrod Industrial Intermediate Prod
3BECSIntils Integrated Oils
3BECSMeting Metal Containers & Packaging
3BECSFooers Food & Beverage Wholesalers
3BECSGasies Gas Utilities
3BECSBuials Building Materials
3BECSIntion Integrated Electric Utilities and Power Generation
3BECSAirrts Aircraft & Parts
3BECSSpeals Specialty Chemicals
3BECSNonges Non-Alcoholic Beverages
3BECSAgrers Agricultural Producers & Wholesalers
3BECSMetoal Metallurgical Coal
3BECSIroals Iron and Base Metals
3BECSIndEIT Industrial, Specialty and Other REIT
3BECSTraery Transportation Equipment & Mobile Machinery
3BECSDefnse Defense
3BECSTobcco Tobacco
3BECSSofces Software and Tech Services
3BECSHomcts Home Products & Personal Care Products

CodePudding user response：

You don't need use list to create length column

BECS_mapping['length'] = BECS_mapping.Label.str.len()