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Description
Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible
d = pd.DataFrame({1: [], 2: []})
g = d.groupby(1)
g[2].transform(lambda x: x)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\groupby\generic.py", line 945, in transform
result = concat(results).sort_index()
File "C:\python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\reshape\concat.py", line 228, in concat
copy=copy, sort=sort)
File "C:\python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\reshape\concat.py", line 262, in __init__
raise ValueError('No objects to concatenate')
Problem description
Crashes on SeriesGroupby obj with zero length, which came from an empty dataframe. Would be nicer if pandas can handle this case without raising errors, by for example, just return an empty series. Thanks.
Expected Output
Series([], Name: 2, dtype: float64)
Output of pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
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commit: None
python: 3.7.3.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 10
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: None
LOCALE: None.None
pandas: 0.24.2
pytest: 4.4.1
pip: 19.0.3
setuptools: 41.0.1
Cython: None
numpy: 1.15.4
scipy: 1.1.0
pyarrow: None
xarray: None
IPython: None
sphinx: None
patsy: 0.5.1
dateutil: 2.7.5
pytz: 2018.7
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: None
numexpr: None
feather: None
matplotlib: 3.0.2
openpyxl: 2.5.12
xlrd: 1.2.0
xlwt: 1.3.0
xlsxwriter: None
lxml.etree: None
bs4: None
html5lib: None
sqlalchemy: None
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: None
s3fs: None
fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None
gcsfs: None