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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example
import pandas as pd
print(pd.Series(data=[None], dtype='interval[datetime64[ns]]'))
Problem description
Instantiating a Series with NA values in data fails if dtype is specified as interval[datetime64[ns]], raising an error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "main.py", line 3, in
> print(pd.Series(
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py", line 364, in __init__
> data = sanitize_array(data, index, dtype, copy, raise_cast_failure=True)
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/construction.py", line 480, in sanitize_array
> subarr = _try_cast(data, dtype, copy, raise_cast_failure)
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/construction.py", line 579, in _try_cast
> subarr = array_type(arr, dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/arrays/interval.py", line 280, in _from_sequence
> return cls(scalars, dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/arrays/interval.py", line 201, in __new__
> return cls._simple_new(
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/arrays/interval.py", line 227, in _simple_new
> left = left.astype(dtype.subtype)
> File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/indexes/numeric.py", line 355, in astype
> raise TypeError(
> TypeError: Cannot convert Float64Index to dtype datetime64[ns]; integer values are required for conversion
Expected Output
0 NaN
dtype: interval
Output of pd.show_versions()
> INSTALLED VERSIONS
> ------------------
> commit : 2cb96529396d93b46abab7bbc73a208e708c642e
> python : 3.8.10.final.0
> python-bits : 64
> OS : Linux
> OS-release : 5.4.0-1043-gcp
> Version : #46-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 19 19:17:04 UTC 2021
> machine : x86_64
> processor : x86_64
> byteorder : little
> LC_ALL : en_US.UTF-8
> LANG : en_US.UTF-8
> LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8
>
> pandas : 1.2.4
> numpy : 1.20.3
> pytz : 2021.1
> dateutil : 2.8.1
> pip : 19.3.1
> setuptools : 56.0.0
> Cython : None
> pytest : None
> hypothesis : None
> sphinx : None
> blosc : None
> feather : None
> xlsxwriter : None
> lxml.etree : None
> html5lib : 1.1
> pymysql : None
> psycopg2 : None
> jinja2 : 3.0.1
> IPython : None
> pandas_datareader: None
> bs4 : None
> bottleneck : None
> fsspec : None
> fastparquet : None
> gcsfs : None
> matplotlib : 3.4.2
> numexpr : None
> odfpy : None
> openpyxl : None
> pandas_gbq : None
> pyarrow : None
> pyxlsb : None
> s3fs : None
> scipy : 1.4.1
> sqlalchemy : 1.4.15
> tables : None
> tabulate : None
> xarray : None
> xlrd : None
> xlwt : None
> numba : None
Comment From: mzeitlin11
Thanks for reporting this @tlaytongoogle! Could you please add an informative title to the issue?
Comment From: tlaytongoogle
Title added.
Comment From: weikhor
Hi, I try to work on this problem. I am not sure whether this is considered bug. I notice that in this file pandas\tests\indexes\interval\test_astype.py, the function
index = IntervalIndex.from_arrays(
[-1.5, np.nan, 0.0, 0.0, 1.5], [-0.5, np.nan, 1.0, 1.0, 3.0], closed="both"
)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("subtype", ["datetime64[ns]", "timedelta64[ns]"])
def test_subtype_datetimelike(self, index, subtype):
dtype = IntervalDtype(subtype, "right")
msg = "Cannot convert .* to .*; subtypes are incompatible"
with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg):
index.astype(dtype)
The series [-1.5, np.nan, 0.0, 0.0, 1.5] in IntervalIndex index contains nan values. Based on test case, the expected result is TypeError: Cannot convert Float64Index to dtype datetime64[ns]; integer values are required for conversion which is same result from issue reported here.
Thank
Comment From: tlaytongoogle
@weikhor Consider that, in contrast to that test, it is entirely possible to convert the values from a Float64Index (including NaN values) into datetime64[ns] values via something like:
DatetimeIndex(index.left, dtype="datetime64[ns]") # index.left is a Float64Index
The key point here is that passing values into a constructor is not quite equivalent to casting with astype. Thus, I don't think that this test is in-and-of-itself evidence that the reported issue constitutes intended behavior.