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batterseapower opened this issue May 17, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #53296
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Algos Non-arithmetic algos: value_counts, factorize, sorting, isin, clip, shift, diff Bug

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Reproducible Example

assert pd.DataFrame().idxmax(axis=1).dtype.kind == 'i' # Fails: O in pandas 2.0.1, f in 1.5.3
assert pd.DataFrame().idxmax(axis=0).dtype.kind == 'i' # Fails: O in pandas 2.0.1, f in 1.5.3

assert pd.DataFrame([[0], [1]], index=pd.DatetimeIndex(['2010-01-01', '2010-01-02'])).idxmax(axis=0).dtype.kind == 'M' # Works OK
pd.DataFrame([[], []], index=pd.DatetimeIndex(['2010-01-01', '2010-01-02'])).idxmax(axis=0).dtype.kind == 'M' # Fails: O in pandas 2.0.1, f in 1.5.3

Issue Description

When idxmax/idxmin creates the series, it should explictly specify the dtype rather than relying on the Series constructor figuring it out from the input data.

(Pandas 1.5.3 raises a FutureWarning on all the failing examples above saying "The default dtype for empty Series will be 'object' instead of 'float64' in a future version. Specify a dtype explicitly to silence this warning.")

Note this is a different issue than the related problem with Series reported in #33941.

Expected Behavior

Asserts above should pass

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 37ea63d python : 3.11.3.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5.x86_64 Version : #1 SMP Thu Mar 10 20:59:28 UTC 2022 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_GB.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_GB.UTF-8

pandas : 2.0.1
numpy : 1.24.3
pytz : 2023.3
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setuptools : 67.7.2
pip : 23.1.2
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pytest : None
hypothesis : None
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blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
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psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : None
IPython : 8.13.2
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : None
bottleneck : None
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : None
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
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pyreadstat : None
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snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
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tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

@batterseapower batterseapower added Bug Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels May 17, 2023
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Yes, having idxmax return a series of the same type as the index would be correct, current behaviour is a bug.

Want to do the PR? I don't think this one will be difficult.

@topper-123 topper-123 added Algos Non-arithmetic algos: value_counts, factorize, sorting, isin, clip, shift, diff and removed Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels May 17, 2023
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