pandas.Series.sum

Series.sum(axis=None, skipna=None, level=None, numeric_only=None, min_count=0, **kwargs)

Return the sum of the values for the requested axis

Parameters:

axis : {index (0)}

skipna : boolean, default True

Exclude NA/null values when computing the result.

level : int or level name, default None

If the axis is a MultiIndex (hierarchical), count along a particular level, collapsing into a scalar

numeric_only : boolean, default None

Include only float, int, boolean columns. If None, will attempt to use everything, then use only numeric data. Not implemented for Series.

min_count : int, default 0

The required number of valid values to perform the operation. If fewer than min_count non-NA values are present the result will be NA.

New in version 0.22.0: Added with the default being 0. This means the sum of an all-NA or empty Series is 0, and the product of an all-NA or empty Series is 1.

Returns:

sum : scalar or Series (if level specified)

Examples

By default, the sum of an empty or all-NA Series is 0.

>>> pd.Series([]).sum()  # min_count=0 is the default
0.0

This can be controlled with the min_count parameter. For example, if you’d like the sum of an empty series to be NaN, pass min_count=1.

>>> pd.Series([]).sum(min_count=1)
nan

Thanks to the skipna parameter, min_count handles all-NA and empty series identically.

>>> pd.Series([np.nan]).sum()
0.0

>>> pd.Series([np.nan]).sum(min_count=1)
nan