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35answered Apr 14, 2020 at 15:18As of now (release of pandas-1.0.0) I would really recommend to use it carefully.
First, it's still an experimental feature:
Experimental: the behaviour of pd.NA can still change without warning.
Second, the behaviour differs from np.nan:
Compared to np.n...
df = pd.DataFrame({"a": [0, pd.NA, 2], "b": [0, np.nan, 2]})df# a b# 0 0 0.0# 1 <NA> NaN# 2 2 2.0and try to interpolate:
df.interpolate()# a b# 0 0 0.0# 1 <NA> 1.0# 2 2 2.0There are some reasons for that (I am still discovering that), anyway, I just want to highlighted those differe...
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