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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example
inner_foo = pd.Series(dtype=float)
inner_bar = inner_foo.copy()
foo = pd.Series({0: inner_foo})
bar = pd.Series({0: inner_bar})
foo.equals(bar)Problem description
Get an exception: ValueError: The truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().
This issue applies to both Series and DataFrame, that equals method failed if there is a nested Series or DataFrame.
Note that pd.testing.assert_series_equal(foo, bar) still works.
Expected Output
True
Output of pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : c7f7443
python : 3.7.11.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 10
Version : 10.0.19041
machine : AMD64
processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : None.None
pandas : 1.3.1
numpy : 1.20.3
pytz : 2021.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
pip : 21.2.2
setuptools : 52.0.0.post20210125
Cython : 0.29.24
pytest : 6.1.2
hypothesis : 6.14.1
sphinx : 4.0.2
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 1.4.4
lxml.etree : 4.6.3
html5lib : 1.1
pymysql : 1.0.2
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.0.1
IPython : 7.22.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.9.3
bottleneck : 1.3.2
fsspec : 2021.07.0
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.4.2
numexpr : 2.7.3
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.7
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 3.0.0
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : 0.4.2
scipy : 1.6.2
sqlalchemy : 1.4.22
tables : 3.6.1
tabulate : 0.8.9
xarray : 0.19.0
xlrd : 2.0.1
xlwt : 1.3.0
numba : 0.53.0