TST: Enable Index dtype comparison by default

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.1.txt

@@ -128,3 +128,6 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in the link-time error caused by C ``inline`` functions on FreeBSD 10+ (with ``clang``) (:issue:`10510`)
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.to_csv`` in passing through arguments for formatting ``MultiIndexes``, including ``date_format`` (:issue:`7791`)
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.join()`` with ``how='right'`` producing a ``TypeError`` (:issue:`11519`)
+- Bug in ``Series.quantile`` with empty list results has ``Index`` with ``object`` dtype (:issue:`11588`)
+- Bug in ``pd.merge`` results in empty ``Int64Index`` rather than ``Index(dtype=object)`` when the merge result is empty (:issue:`11588`)
+

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
             avoid duplicating data
         method : {None, 'backfill'/'bfill', 'pad'/'ffill', 'nearest'}, optional
             method to use for filling holes in reindexed DataFrame.
-            Please note: this is only  applicable to DataFrames/Series with a 
+            Please note: this is only  applicable to DataFrames/Series with a
             monotonically increasing/decreasing index.
               * default: don't fill gaps
               * pad / ffill: propagate last valid observation forward to next valid
@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
 
         Create a new index and reindex the dataframe. By default
         values in the new index that do not have corresponding
-        records in the dataframe are assigned ``NaN``. 
+        records in the dataframe are assigned ``NaN``.
 
         >>> new_index= ['Safari', 'Iceweasel', 'Comodo Dragon', 'IE10',
         ...             'Chrome']
@@ -1836,8 +1836,8 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
 
         We can fill in the missing values by passing a value to
         the keyword ``fill_value``. Because the index is not monotonically
-        increasing or decreasing, we cannot use arguments to the keyword  
-        ``method`` to fill the ``NaN`` values. 
+        increasing or decreasing, we cannot use arguments to the keyword
+        ``method`` to fill the ``NaN`` values.
 
         >>> df.reindex(new_index, fill_value=0)
                        http_status  response_time
@@ -1855,8 +1855,8 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
         IE10                  404          0.08
         Chrome                200          0.02
 
-        To further illustrate the filling functionality in 
-        ``reindex``, we will create a dataframe with a 
+        To further illustrate the filling functionality in
+        ``reindex``, we will create a dataframe with a
         monotonically increasing index (for example, a sequence
         of dates).
 
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
         2010-01-06      88
 
         Suppose we decide to expand the dataframe to cover a wider
-        date range. 
+        date range.
 
         >>> date_index2 = pd.date_range('12/29/2009', periods=10, freq='D')
         >>> df2.reindex(date_index2)
@@ -1890,10 +1890,10 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
         2010-01-07     NaN
 
         The index entries that did not have a value in the original data frame
-        (for example, '2009-12-29') are by default filled with ``NaN``. 
+        (for example, '2009-12-29') are by default filled with ``NaN``.
         If desired, we can fill in the missing values using one of several
-        options. 
-        
+        options.
+
         For example, to backpropagate the last valid value to fill the ``NaN``
         values, pass ``bfill`` as an argument to the ``method`` keyword.
 
@@ -1911,7 +1911,7 @@ def sort_index(self, axis=0, level=None, ascending=True, inplace=False,
         2010-01-07     NaN
 
         Please note that the ``NaN`` value present in the original dataframe
-        (at index value 2010-01-03) will not be filled by any of the 
+        (at index value 2010-01-03) will not be filled by any of the
         value propagation schemes. This is because filling while reindexing
         does not look at dataframe values, but only compares the original and
         desired indexes. If you do want to fill in the ``NaN`` values present

pandas/core/indexing.py

@@ -524,15 +524,15 @@ def _align_series(self, indexer, ser, multiindex_indexer=False):
         Parameters
         ----------
         indexer : tuple, slice, scalar
-            The indexer used to get the locations that will be set to 
+            The indexer used to get the locations that will be set to
             `ser`
 
         ser : pd.Series
             The values to assign to the locations specified by `indexer`
 
         multiindex_indexer : boolean, optional
             Defaults to False. Should be set to True if `indexer` was from
-            a `pd.MultiIndex`, to avoid unnecessary broadcasting. 
+            a `pd.MultiIndex`, to avoid unnecessary broadcasting.
 
 
         Returns:

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
                                 _maybe_box_datetimelike, ABCDataFrame,
                                 _dict_compat)
 from pandas.core.index import (Index, MultiIndex, InvalidIndexError,
-                               _ensure_index)
+                               Float64Index, _ensure_index)
 from pandas.core.indexing import check_bool_indexer, maybe_convert_indices
 from pandas.core import generic, base
 from pandas.core.internals import SingleBlockManager
@@ -1271,6 +1271,8 @@ def quantile(self, q=0.5):
         def multi(values, qs):
             if com.is_list_like(qs):
                 values = [_quantile(values, x*100) for x in qs]
+                # let empty result to be Float64Index
+                qs = Float64Index(qs)
                 return self._constructor(values, index=qs, name=self.name)
             else:
                 return _quantile(values, qs*100)

pandas/io/tests/test_excel.py

@@ -846,7 +846,8 @@ def test_int_types(self):
                 # test with convert_float=False comes back as float
                 float_frame = frame.astype(float)
                 recons = read_excel(path, 'test1', convert_float=False)
-                tm.assert_frame_equal(recons, float_frame)
+                tm.assert_frame_equal(recons, float_frame,
+                                      check_index_type=False, check_column_type=False)
 
     def test_float_types(self):
         _skip_if_no_xlrd()
@@ -1186,9 +1187,11 @@ def test_to_excel_output_encoding(self):
         _skip_if_no_xlrd()
         ext = self.ext
         filename = '__tmp_to_excel_float_format__.' + ext
-        df = DataFrame([[u('\u0192'), u('\u0193'), u('\u0194')],
-                        [u('\u0195'), u('\u0196'), u('\u0197')]],
-                        index=[u('A\u0192'), 'B'], columns=[u('X\u0193'), 'Y', 'Z'])
+
+        # avoid mixed inferred_type
+        df = DataFrame([[u'\u0192', u'\u0193', u'\u0194'],
+                        [u'\u0195', u'\u0196', u'\u0197']],
+                        index=[u'A\u0192', u'B'], columns=[u'X\u0193', u'Y', u'Z'])
 
         with ensure_clean(filename) as filename:
             df.to_excel(filename, sheet_name='TestSheet', encoding='utf8')