BUG: Index doesn't have an .empty attribute

[chris-b1]

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

In [108]: i = pd.Index([])

In [109]: bool(i)
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-109-43b3c3723ad4> in <module>()
----> 1 bool(i)

C:\Users\Chris\Anaconda\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\pandas\indexes\base.py in __nonzero__(self)
   1227         raise ValueError("The truth value of a {0} is ambiguous. "
   1228                          "Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all()."
-> 1229                          .format(self.__class__.__name__))
   1230 
   1231     __bool__ = __nonzero__

ValueError: The truth value of a Index is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().

In [110]: i.empty
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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-110-1524e0ba750e> in <module>()
----> 1 i.empty

AttributeError: 'Index' object has no attribute 'empty'

[jreback]

yeah this could be added (or more likely the Series one moved to the Mixin)

[pfrcks]

@jreback I would like to work on this. Probably add an attribute to Index, perhaps in the pandas/indexes/base.py file?

[chris-b1]

@pfrcks - I think you could add it to the IndexOpsMixIn class https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/pandas/core/base.py#L794

[pfrcks]

@chris-b1 @jreback I've implemented the empty attribute and added unittests for it too. Kindly take a look.