I have an array of floats (some normal numbers, some nans) that is coming out of an apply on a pandas dataframe.
For some reason, numpy.isnan is failing on this array, however as shown below, each element is a float, numpy.isnan runs correctly on each element, the type of the variable is definitely a numpy array.
What's going on?!
set([type(x) for x in tester])
Out[59]: {float}
tester
Out[60]:
array([-0.7000000000000001, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan,
nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan,
nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan,
nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan,
nan, nan], dtype=object)
set([type(x) for x in tester])
Out[61]: {float}
np.isnan(tester)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-62-e3638605b43c>", line 1, in <module>
np.isnan(tester)
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
set([np.isnan(x) for x in tester])
Out[65]: {False, True}
type(tester)
Out[66]: numpy.ndarray
np.isnan can be applied to NumPy arrays of native dtype (such as np.float64):
In [99]: np.isnan(np.array([np.nan, 0], dtype=np.float64))
Out[99]: array([ True, False], dtype=bool)
but raises TypeError when applied to object arrays:
In [96]: np.isnan(np.array([np.nan, 0], dtype=object))
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
Since you have Pandas, you could use pd.isnull instead -- it can accept NumPy arrays of object or native dtypes:
In [97]: pd.isnull(np.array([np.nan, 0], dtype=float))
Out[97]: array([ True, False], dtype=bool)
In [98]: pd.isnull(np.array([np.nan, 0], dtype=object))
Out[98]: array([ True, False], dtype=bool)
Note that None is also considered a null value in object arrays.