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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

pd.DataFrame([0,1,2,3]).replace(0, pd.NA)

Issue Description

pd.DataFrame.replace() with value=pd.NA in pandas v1.5.0 and v1.5.1 crushes python kernel:

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Expected Behavior

      0
0    <NA>
1     1
2     2
3     3

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 91111fd99898d9dcaa6bf6bedb662db4108da6e6 python : 3.10.0.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Windows OS-release : 10 Version : 10.0.17763 machine : AMD64 processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 85 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : None LOCALE : English_United States.1251 pandas : 1.5.1 numpy : 1.21.4 pytz : 2021.3 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 57.4.0 pip : 22.3 Cython : None pytest : None hypothesis : None sphinx : None blosc : None feather : None xlsxwriter : 3.0.3 lxml.etree : None html5lib : None pymysql : None psycopg2 : None jinja2 : 3.0.3 IPython : 7.30.1 pandas_datareader: None bs4 : 4.11.1 bottleneck : None brotli : None fastparquet : None fsspec : None gcsfs : None matplotlib : 3.5.0 numba : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : 3.0.9 pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : None pyreadstat : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : None snappy : None sqlalchemy : None tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None xlwt : None zstandard : None tzdata : None

Comment From: phofl

Hi, thanks for your report. Duplicate of #45725

Comment From: gusutabopb

@phofl This issue is still present in 1.5.2 (worked fine in 1.4.x):

pd.Series([0.0, 1.0]).replace(0.0, pd.NA)

throws

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Current work around I found is to cast to object before replace:

pd.Series([0.0, 1.0]).astype(object).replace(0.0, pd.NA)