Description
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Reproducible Example
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame([
{'category': 'Books', 'date_str': '2021-01-01', 'amount': 10.00},
{'category': 'Books', 'date_str': '2021-01-01', 'amount': 20.00},
{'category': 'Books', 'date_str': '2021-01-03', 'amount': 50.00},
{'category': 'Vacation', 'date_str': '2021-01-01', 'amount': 100.00},
{'category': 'Vacation', 'date_str': '2021-01-01', 'amount': 200.00},
{'category': 'Vacation', 'date_str': '2021-01-02', 'amount': 500.00},
])
df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date_str'])
pivot = df.pivot_table(
index = ["category", "date"],
values = ["amount"],
aggfunc = [np.sum],
margins = True
)
Issue Description
When executing the pivot_table
function with margins=True
on a dataset with dates that have been explicitly typed as datetime
, a FutureWarning
error is produced regarding inference of datetime64[ns]
, and the pivot operation appears to try to aggregate the date-valued field, producing NaT
.
<ipython-input-22-f8a00ede7c0c>:1: FutureWarning: Inferring datetime64[ns] from
data containing strings is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. To
retain the old behavior explicitly pass Series(data, dtype={value.dtype})
pivot = df.pivot_table(
I'm not sure why this warning is triggered given that the date
field is explicitly typed (no inference) and fully populated (no missing date values).
Here's what the pivot produces, with the NaT
on the bottom row under the date
column:
sum
amount
category date
Books 2021-01-01 30.0
2021-01-03 50.0
Vacation 2021-01-01 300.0
2021-01-02 500.0
All NaT 880.0
Expected Behavior
Absent a clear semantic for summing up date-valued fields, I would expect the pivot operation to ignore that field when calculating totals as part of the margins
behavior, and no FutureWarning
to be produced.
The expected resulting table would look like (note absent 'NaTon the bottom
All` line):
sum
amount
category date
Books 2021-01-01 30.0
2021-01-03 50.0
Vacation 2021-01-01 300.0
2021-01-02 500.0
All 880.0
Installed Versions
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : 73c6825
python : 3.8.11.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Darwin
OS-release : 20.6.0
Version : Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Wed Jun 23 00:26:31 PDT 2021; root:xnu-7195.141.2~5/RELEASE_X86_64
machine : x86_64
processor : i386
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8
pandas : 1.3.3
numpy : 1.19.2
pytz : 2020.1
dateutil : 2.8.1
pip : 21.1.2
setuptools : 57.0.0
Cython : None
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 1.3.6
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 2.11.2
IPython : 7.18.1
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : None
bottleneck : None
fsspec : None
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.3.2
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.5
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
sqlalchemy : 1.3.19
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : 1.2.0
xlwt : 1.3.0
numba : None