class PDMixIn(object):

    @property
    def _constructor(self):
        return self.__class__

class DF(PDMixIn, pd.DataFrame):
    _metadata = ['my_prop']

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        my_prop = kwargs.pop('my_prop', 'some_prop')
        super().__init__(*args, *kwargs)
        self.my_prop = my_prop

df = DF(my_prop='new_prop')
print(df.my_prop)
# 'new_prop' 

# But after adding 1
df = df + 1
print(df.my_prop)
# 'some_prop'

Seems like DF is losing property value after addition I found similar behaviour for sub and others.

I was able to solve the problem by adding following code to PDMixIn

def __add__(self, other):
        result = pd.DataFrame.__add__(self, other)
        return self._constructor(result).__finalize__(self)

df = df + 1
print(df.my_prop)
# 'new_prop'
INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: None python: 3.6.3.final.0 python-bits: 64 OS: Windows OS-release: 10 machine: AMD64 processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE: None.None pandas: 0.22.0 pytest: 3.3.0 pip: 9.0.1 setuptools: 36.5.0.post20170921 Cython: 0.27.3 numpy: 1.13.3 scipy: 1.0.0 pyarrow: None xarray: None IPython: 6.2.1 sphinx: 1.6.3 patsy: 0.4.1 dateutil: 2.6.1 pytz: 2017.3 blosc: None bottleneck: 1.2.1 tables: 3.4.2 numexpr: 2.6.4 feather: None matplotlib: 2.1.1 openpyxl: 2.4.9 xlrd: 1.1.0 xlwt: 1.3.0 xlsxwriter: 1.0.2 lxml: 4.1.1 bs4: 4.6.0 html5lib: 1.0.1 sqlalchemy: 1.1.13 pymysql: None psycopg2: 2.7.3.2 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64) jinja2: 2.10 s3fs: None fastparquet: None pandas_gbq: None pandas_datareader: None

Comment From: jorisvandenbossche

I think this is a duplicate of https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/13208. There is some discussion in that PR, and it seems a PR to fix this would be welcome.