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Reproducible Example & Issue Description
We can interchange our own empty dataframes just fine.
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> from pandas.api.interchange import from_dataframe as pandas_from_dataframe
>>> orig_df = pd.DataFrame({})
>>> pandas_from_dataframe(orig_df)
Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: []
But fail when roundtripping with pyarrow
.
>>> from pyarrow.interchange import from_dataframe as pyarrow_from_dataframe
>>> arrow_df = pyarrow_from_dataframe(orig_df)
>>> pandas_from_dataframe(arrow_df)
ValueError: No objects to concatenate
Full traceback
../../../anaconda3/envs/df/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/interchange/from_dataframe.py:54: in from_dataframe
return _from_dataframe(df.__dataframe__(allow_copy=allow_copy))
../../../anaconda3/envs/df/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/interchange/from_dataframe.py:85: in _from_dataframe
pandas_df = pd.concat(pandas_dfs, axis=0, ignore_index=True, copy=False)
../../../anaconda3/envs/df/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py:377: in concat
op = _Concatenator(
../../../anaconda3/envs/df/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/core/reshape/concat.py:440: in __init__
objs, keys = self._clean_keys_and_objs(objs, keys)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
self = <pandas.core.reshape.concat._Concatenator object at 0x7ff532e247c0>, objs = [], keys = None
def _clean_keys_and_objs(
self,
objs: Iterable[Series | DataFrame] | Mapping[HashableT, Series | DataFrame],
keys,
) -> tuple[list[Series | DataFrame], Index | None]:
if isinstance(objs, abc.Mapping):
if keys is None:
keys = list(objs.keys())
objs = [objs[k] for k in keys]
else:
objs = list(objs)
if len(objs) == 0:
> raise ValueError("No objects to concatenate")
E ValueError: No objects to concatenate
This also happens for zero-row dataframes
>>> orig_df = pd.DataFrame({"a": []})
>>> arrow_df = pyarrow_from_dataframe(orig_df)
>>> pandas_from_dataframe(arrow_df)
ValueError: No objects to concatenate
See that a roundtrip for a non-empty df works fine.
>>> orig_df = arrow_from_dataframe(orig_df)
>>> arrow_df = pyarrow_from_dataframe(orig_df)
>>> pandas_from_dataframe(arrow_df)
a
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
We also get the same issue if we interchange a pyarrow.Table
.
>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> orig_df = pa.from_dict({})
>>> pandas_from_dataframe(orig_df)
ValueError: No objects to concatenate
Expected Behavior
>>> orig_df = pd.DataFrame({})
>>> arrow_df = pyarrow_from_dataframe(orig_df)
>>> pandas_from_dataframe(arrow_df)
Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: []
Installed Versions
pd.show_versions()
/home/honno/.local/share/virtualenvs/pandas-empty-df-GBPvUBxi/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__init__.py:33: UserWarning: Setuptools is replacing distutils.
warnings.warn("Setuptools is replacing distutils.")
INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
commit : 37ea63d540fd27274cad6585082c91b1283f963d
python : 3.8.12.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.19.0-41-generic
Version : #42~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Apr 18 17:40:00 UTC 2
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
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 67.6.1
pip : 23.0.1
Cython : None
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : None
IPython : 8.12.2
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
pyarrow : 12.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None
Also tried this with pandas nightly
$ pip install --pre --extra-index https://pypi.anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly/simple pandas --ignore-installed --no-deps
pyarrow is from their nightly builds
$ pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/arrow-nightlies/ --prefer-binary --pre pyarrow