Description
I've noticed a bunch of issues with SparseDataFrame's constructor, particularly around support for non-float64 datatypes:
- when
datais not provided, the default_fill_value is not used to fill the data (noted in passing BUG: SparseDataFrame does not allow single value data #5470):
>>> pd.SparseDataFrame(columns=list("ab"), index=range(4), default_fill_value=0.0)
a b
0 NaN NaN
1 NaN NaN
2 NaN NaN
3 NaN NaN- [ ] when data is not provided and the dtype is set to int64, the constructor call fails
>>> pd.SparseDataFrame(columns=list("ab"), index=range(4), dtype=np.int64)
ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer-
whendatais an empty sparse matrix withint64entries and nodtypeis specified, the type of the SparseDataFrame is stillfloat64. Worse, even whendtypeis specified, it still doesn't work.
>>> pd.SparseDataFrame(coo_matrix((4,3), dtype=np.int64))
0 1 2
0 NaN NaN NaN
1 NaN NaN NaN
2 NaN NaN NaN
3 NaN NaN NaN
>>> pd.SparseDataFrame(coo_matrix((4,3), dtype=np.int64), dtype=np.int64)
0 1 2
0 NaN NaN NaN
1 NaN NaN NaN
2 NaN NaN NaN
3 NaN NaN NaN-
probably due to the same issue, given a sparse matrix with underlying elements of typeint64, if any of the values in a column is0then that column will be treated asfloat64s:
>>> pd.SparseDataFrame(coo_matrix(np.arange(12).reshape(4,3), dtype=np.int64))
0 1 2
0 NaN 1 2
1 3.0 4 5
2 6.0 7 8
3 9.0 10 11(as long as at least one value is non-zero, then this can be worked around by setting default_fill_value; however, if all of the values in one column are zero then this no longer works).
Output of pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit: None
python: 3.5.2.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 10
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: None
LOCALE: None.None
pandas: 0.20.2
pytest: 2.9.2
pip: 8.1.2
setuptools: 27.2.0
Cython: 0.25.2
numpy: 1.13.0
scipy: 0.18.1
xarray: None
IPython: 5.1.0
sphinx: 1.4.6
patsy: 0.4.1
dateutil: 2.5.3
pytz: 2016.6.1
blosc: None
bottleneck: 1.1.0
tables: 3.2.2
numexpr: 2.6.1
feather: None
matplotlib: 2.0.2
openpyxl: 2.3.2
xlrd: 1.0.0
xlwt: 1.1.2
xlsxwriter: 0.9.3
lxml: 3.6.4
bs4: 4.5.1
html5lib: None
sqlalchemy: 1.0.13
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.8
s3fs: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: 0.4.0