v0.10.0 (December 17, 2012)

This is a major release from 0.9.1 and includes many new features and enhancements along with a large number of bug fixes. There are also a number of important API changes that long-time pandas users should pay close attention to.

File parsing new features

The delimited file parsing engine (the guts of read_csv and read_table) has been rewritten from the ground up and now uses a fraction the amount of memory while parsing, while being 40% or more faster in most use cases (in some cases much faster).

There are also many new features:

  • Much-improved Unicode handling via the encoding option.

  • Column filtering (usecols)

  • Dtype specification (dtype argument)

  • Ability to specify strings to be recognized as True/False

  • Ability to yield NumPy record arrays (as_recarray)

  • High performance delim_whitespace option

  • Decimal format (e.g. European format) specification

  • Easier CSV dialect options: escapechar, lineterminator, quotechar, etc.

  • More robust handling of many exceptional kinds of files observed in the wild

API changes

Deprecated DataFrame BINOP TimeSeries special case behavior

The default behavior of binary operations between a DataFrame and a Series has always been to align on the DataFrame’s columns and broadcast down the rows, except in the special case that the DataFrame contains time series. Since there are now method for each binary operator enabling you to specify how you want to broadcast, we are phasing out this special case (Zen of Python: Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules). Here’s what I’m talking about:

In [1]: import pandas as pd

In [2]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(6, 4),
   ...:                   index=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=6))
   ...: 

In [3]: df
Out[3]: 
                   0         1         2         3
2000-01-01  0.469112 -0.282863 -1.509059 -1.135632
2000-01-02  1.212112 -0.173215  0.119209 -1.044236
2000-01-03 -0.861849 -2.104569 -0.494929  1.071804
2000-01-04  0.721555 -0.706771 -1.039575  0.271860
2000-01-05 -0.424972  0.567020  0.276232 -1.087401
2000-01-06 -0.673690  0.113648 -1.478427  0.524988

# deprecated now
In [4]: df - df[0]
Out[4]: 
            2000-01-01 00:00:00  2000-01-02 00:00:00  2000-01-03 00:00:00  2000-01-04 00:00:00  ...   0   1   2   3
2000-01-01                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN  ... NaN NaN NaN NaN
2000-01-02                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN  ... NaN NaN NaN NaN
2000-01-03                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN  ... NaN NaN NaN NaN
2000-01-04                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN  ... NaN NaN NaN NaN
2000-01-05                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN  ... NaN NaN NaN NaN
2000-01-06                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN                  NaN  ... NaN NaN NaN NaN

[6 rows x 10 columns]

# Change your code to
In [5]: df.sub(df[0], axis=0)  # align on axis 0 (rows)
Out[5]: 
              0         1         2         3
2000-01-01  0.0 -0.751976 -1.978171 -1.604745
2000-01-02  0.0 -1.385327 -1.092903 -2.256348
2000-01-03  0.0 -1.242720  0.366920  1.933653
2000-01-04  0.0 -1.428326 -1.761130 -0.449695
2000-01-05  0.0  0.991993  0.701204 -0.662428
2000-01-06  0.0  0.787338 -0.804737  1.198677

You will get a deprecation warning in the 0.10.x series, and the deprecated functionality will be removed in 0.11 or later.

Altered resample default behavior

The default time series resample binning behavior of daily D and higher frequencies has been changed to closed='left', label='left'. Lower nfrequencies are unaffected. The prior defaults were causing a great deal of confusion for users, especially resampling data to daily frequency (which labeled the aggregated group with the end of the interval: the next day).

In [1]: dates = pd.date_range('1/1/2000', '1/5/2000', freq='4h')

In [2]: series = pd.Series(np.arange(len(dates)), index=dates)

In [3]: series
Out[3]:
2000-01-01 00:00:00     0
2000-01-01 04:00:00     1
2000-01-01 08:00:00     2
2000-01-01 12:00:00     3
2000-01-01 16:00:00     4
2000-01-01 20:00:00     5
2000-01-02 00:00:00     6
2000-01-02 04:00:00     7
2000-01-02 08:00:00     8
2000-01-02 12:00:00     9
2000-01-02 16:00:00    10
2000-01-02 20:00:00    11
2000-01-03 00:00:00    12
2000-01-03 04:00:00    13
2000-01-03 08:00:00    14
2000-01-03 12:00:00    15
2000-01-03 16:00:00    16
2000-01-03 20:00:00    17
2000-01-04 00:00:00    18
2000-01-04 04:00:00    19
2000-01-04 08:00:00    20
2000-01-04 12:00:00    21
2000-01-04 16:00:00    22
2000-01-04 20:00:00    23
2000-01-05 00:00:00    24
Freq: 4H, dtype: int64

In [4]: series.resample('D', how='sum')
Out[4]:
2000-01-01     15
2000-01-02     51
2000-01-03     87
2000-01-04    123
2000-01-05     24
Freq: D, dtype: int64

In [5]: # old behavior
In [6]: series.resample('D', how='sum', closed='right', label='right')
Out[6]:
2000-01-01      0
2000-01-02     21
2000-01-03     57
2000-01-04     93
2000-01-05    129
Freq: D, dtype: int64

  • Infinity and negative infinity are no longer treated as NA by isnull and notnull. That they ever were was a relic of early pandas. This behavior can be re-enabled globally by the mode.use_inf_as_null option:

In [6]: s = pd.Series([1.5, np.inf, 3.4, -np.inf])

In [7]: pd.isnull(s)
Out[7]:
0    False
1    False
2    False
3    False
Length: 4, dtype: bool

In [8]: s.fillna(0)
Out[8]:
0    1.500000
1         inf
2    3.400000
3        -inf
Length: 4, dtype: float64

In [9]: pd.set_option('use_inf_as_null', True)

In [10]: pd.isnull(s)
Out[10]:
0    False
1     True
2    False
3     True
Length: 4, dtype: bool

In [11]: s.fillna(0)
Out[11]:
0    1.5
1    0.0
2    3.4
3    0.0
Length: 4, dtype: float64

In [12]: pd.reset_option('use_inf_as_null')

  • Methods with the inplace option now all return None instead of the calling object. E.g. code written like df = df.fillna(0, inplace=True) may stop working. To fix, simply delete the unnecessary variable assignment.

  • pandas.merge no longer sorts the group keys (sort=False) by default. This was done for performance reasons: the group-key sorting is often one of the more expensive parts of the computation and is often unnecessary.

  • The default column names for a file with no header have been changed to the integers 0 through N - 1. This is to create consistency with the DataFrame constructor with no columns specified. The v0.9.0 behavior (names X0, X1, …) can be reproduced by specifying prefix='X':

In [6]: import io

In [7]: data = ('a,b,c\n'
   ...:         '1,Yes,2\n'
   ...:         '3,No,4')
   ...: 

In [8]: print(data)
a,b,c
1,Yes,2
3,No,4

In [9]: pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(data), header=None)
Out[9]: 
   0    1  2
0  a    b  c
1  1  Yes  2
2  3   No  4

In [10]: pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(data), header=None, prefix='X')
Out[10]: 
  X0   X1 X2
0  a    b  c
1  1  Yes  2
2  3   No  4

  • Values like 'Yes' and 'No' are not interpreted as boolean by default, though this can be controlled by new true_values and false_values arguments:

In [11]: print(data)
a,b,c
1,Yes,2
3,No,4

In [12]: pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(data))
Out[12]: 
   a    b  c
0  1  Yes  2
1  3   No  4

In [13]: pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(data), true_values=['Yes'], false_values=['No'])
Out[13]: 
   a      b  c
0  1   True  2
1  3  False  4

  • The file parsers will not recognize non-string values arising from a converter function as NA if passed in the na_values argument. It’s better to do post-processing using the replace function instead.

  • Calling fillna on Series or DataFrame with no arguments is no longer valid code. You must either specify a fill value or an interpolation method:

In [14]: s = pd.Series([np.nan, 1., 2., np.nan, 4])

In [15]: s
Out[15]: 
0    NaN
1    1.0
2    2.0
3    NaN
4    4.0
dtype: float64

In [16]: s.fillna(0)
Out[16]: 
0    0.0
1    1.0
2    2.0
3    0.0
4    4.0
dtype: float64

In [17]: s.fillna(method='pad')
Out[17]: 
0    NaN
1    1.0
2    2.0
3    2.0
4    4.0
dtype: float64

Convenience methods ffill and bfill have been added:

In [18]: s.ffill()
Out[18]: 
0    NaN
1    1.0
2    2.0
3    2.0
4    4.0
dtype: float64

  • Series.apply will now operate on a returned value from the applied function, that is itself a series, and possibly upcast the result to a DataFrame

    In [19]: def f(x):
   ....:     return pd.Series([x, x**2], index=['x', 'x^2'])
   ....: 

In [20]: s = pd.Series(np.random.rand(5))

In [21]: s
Out[21]: 
0    0.340445
1    0.984729
2    0.919540
3    0.037772
4    0.861549
dtype: float64

In [22]: s.apply(f)
Out[22]: 
          x       x^2
0  0.340445  0.115903
1  0.984729  0.969691
2  0.919540  0.845555
3  0.037772  0.001427
4  0.861549  0.742267

  • New API functions for working with pandas options (GH2097):

    • get_option / set_option - get/set the value of an option. Partial names are accepted. - reset_option - reset one or more options to their default value. Partial names are accepted. - describe_option - print a description of one or more options. When called with no arguments. print all registered options.

    Note: set_printoptions/ reset_printoptions are now deprecated (but functioning), the print options now live under “display.XYZ”. For example:

    In [23]: pd.get_option("display.max_rows")
Out[23]: 15

  • to_string() methods now always return unicode strings (GH2224).

New features

Wide DataFrame printing

Instead of printing the summary information, pandas now splits the string representation across multiple rows by default:

In [24]: wide_frame = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(5, 16))

In [25]: wide_frame
Out[25]: 
         0         1         2         3         4         5         6   ...        9         10        11        12        13        14        15
0 -0.548702  1.467327 -1.015962 -0.483075  1.637550 -1.217659 -0.291519  ...  0.991460 -0.919069  0.266046 -0.709661  1.669052  1.037882 -1.705775
1 -0.919854 -0.042379  1.247642 -0.009920  0.290213  0.495767  0.362949  ... -0.089329  0.337863 -0.945867 -0.932132  1.956030  0.017587 -0.016692
2 -0.575247  0.254161 -1.143704  0.215897  1.193555 -0.077118 -0.408530  ...  1.511763  1.627081 -0.990582 -0.441652  1.211526  0.268520  0.024580
3 -1.577585  0.396823 -0.105381 -0.532532  1.453749  1.208843 -0.080952  ... -0.589346  0.339969 -0.693205 -0.339355  0.593616  0.884345  1.591431
4  0.141809  0.220390  0.435589  0.192451 -0.096701  0.803351  1.715071  ... -1.814470  1.018601 -0.595447  1.395433 -0.392670  0.007207  1.928123

[5 rows x 16 columns]

The old behavior of printing out summary information can be achieved via the ‘expand_frame_repr’ print option:

In [26]: pd.set_option('expand_frame_repr', False)

In [27]: wide_frame
Out[27]: 
          0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8         9        10        11        12        13        14        15
0 -0.548702  1.467327 -1.015962 -0.483075  1.637550 -1.217659 -0.291519 -1.745505 -0.263952  0.991460 -0.919069  0.266046 -0.709661  1.669052  1.037882 -1.705775
1 -0.919854 -0.042379  1.247642 -0.009920  0.290213  0.495767  0.362949  1.548106 -1.131345 -0.089329  0.337863 -0.945867 -0.932132  1.956030  0.017587 -0.016692
2 -0.575247  0.254161 -1.143704  0.215897  1.193555 -0.077118 -0.408530 -0.862495  1.346061  1.511763  1.627081 -0.990582 -0.441652  1.211526  0.268520  0.024580
3 -1.577585  0.396823 -0.105381 -0.532532  1.453749  1.208843 -0.080952 -0.264610 -0.727965 -0.589346  0.339969 -0.693205 -0.339355  0.593616  0.884345  1.591431
4  0.141809  0.220390  0.435589  0.192451 -0.096701  0.803351  1.715071 -0.708758 -1.202872 -1.814470  1.018601 -0.595447  1.395433 -0.392670  0.007207  1.928123

The width of each line can be changed via ‘line_width’ (80 by default):

pd.set_option('line_width', 40)

wide_frame

Updated PyTables support

Docs for PyTables Table format & several enhancements to the api. Here is a taste of what to expect.

In [41]: store = pd.HDFStore('store.h5')

In [42]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 3),
   ....:                   index=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=8),
   ....:                   columns=['A', 'B', 'C'])

In [43]: df
Out[43]:
                   A         B         C
2000-01-01 -2.036047  0.000830 -0.955697
2000-01-02 -0.898872 -0.725411  0.059904
2000-01-03 -0.449644  1.082900 -1.221265
2000-01-04  0.361078  1.330704  0.855932
2000-01-05 -1.216718  1.488887  0.018993
2000-01-06 -0.877046  0.045976  0.437274
2000-01-07 -0.567182 -0.888657 -0.556383
2000-01-08  0.655457  1.117949 -2.782376

[8 rows x 3 columns]

# appending data frames
In [44]: df1 = df[0:4]

In [45]: df2 = df[4:]

In [46]: store.append('df', df1)

In [47]: store.append('df', df2)

In [48]: store
Out[48]:
<class 'pandas.io.pytables.HDFStore'>
File path: store.h5
/df            frame_table  (typ->appendable,nrows->8,ncols->3,indexers->[index])

# selecting the entire store
In [49]: store.select('df')
Out[49]:
                   A         B         C
2000-01-01 -2.036047  0.000830 -0.955697
2000-01-02 -0.898872 -0.725411  0.059904
2000-01-03 -0.449644  1.082900 -1.221265
2000-01-04  0.361078  1.330704  0.855932
2000-01-05 -1.216718  1.488887  0.018993
2000-01-06 -0.877046  0.045976  0.437274
2000-01-07 -0.567182 -0.888657 -0.556383
2000-01-08  0.655457  1.117949 -2.782376

[8 rows x 3 columns]

In [50]: wp = pd.Panel(np.random.randn(2, 5, 4), items=['Item1', 'Item2'],
   ....:               major_axis=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=5),
   ....:               minor_axis=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])

In [51]: wp
Out[51]:
<class 'pandas.core.panel.Panel'>
Dimensions: 2 (items) x 5 (major_axis) x 4 (minor_axis)
Items axis: Item1 to Item2
Major_axis axis: 2000-01-01 00:00:00 to 2000-01-05 00:00:00
Minor_axis axis: A to D

# storing a panel
In [52]: store.append('wp', wp)

# selecting via A QUERY
In [53]: store.select('wp', [pd.Term('major_axis>20000102'),
   ....:                     pd.Term('minor_axis', '=', ['A', 'B'])])
   ....:
Out[53]:
<class 'pandas.core.panel.Panel'>
Dimensions: 2 (items) x 3 (major_axis) x 2 (minor_axis)
Items axis: Item1 to Item2
Major_axis axis: 2000-01-03 00:00:00 to 2000-01-05 00:00:00
Minor_axis axis: A to B

# removing data from tables
In [54]: store.remove('wp', pd.Term('major_axis>20000103'))
Out[54]: 8

In [55]: store.select('wp')
Out[55]:
<class 'pandas.core.panel.Panel'>
Dimensions: 2 (items) x 3 (major_axis) x 4 (minor_axis)
Items axis: Item1 to Item2
Major_axis axis: 2000-01-01 00:00:00 to 2000-01-03 00:00:00
Minor_axis axis: A to D

# deleting a store
In [56]: del store['df']

In [57]: store
Out[57]:
<class 'pandas.io.pytables.HDFStore'>
File path: store.h5
/wp            wide_table   (typ->appendable,nrows->12,ncols->2,indexers->[major_axis,minor_axis])

Enhancements

  • added ability to hierarchical keys

    In [58]: store.put('foo/bar/bah', df)

In [59]: store.append('food/orange', df)

In [60]: store.append('food/apple', df)

In [61]: store
Out[61]:
<class 'pandas.io.pytables.HDFStore'>
File path: store.h5
/foo/bar/bah            frame        (shape->[8,3])
/food/apple             frame_table  (typ->appendable,nrows->8,ncols->3,indexers->[index])
/food/orange            frame_table  (typ->appendable,nrows->8,ncols->3,indexers->[index])
/wp                     wide_table   (typ->appendable,nrows->12,ncols->2,indexers->[major_axis,minor_axis])

# remove all nodes under this level
In [62]: store.remove('food')

In [63]: store
Out[63]:
<class 'pandas.io.pytables.HDFStore'>
File path: store.h5
/foo/bar/bah            frame        (shape->[8,3])
/wp                     wide_table   (typ->appendable,nrows->12,ncols->2,indexers->[major_axis,minor_axis])

  • added mixed-dtype support!

    In [64]: df['string'] = 'string'

In [65]: df['int'] = 1

In [66]: store.append('df', df)

In [67]: df1 = store.select('df')

In [68]: df1
Out[68]:
                   A         B         C  string  int
2000-01-01 -2.036047  0.000830 -0.955697  string    1
2000-01-02 -0.898872 -0.725411  0.059904  string    1
2000-01-03 -0.449644  1.082900 -1.221265  string    1
2000-01-04  0.361078  1.330704  0.855932  string    1
2000-01-05 -1.216718  1.488887  0.018993  string    1
2000-01-06 -0.877046  0.045976  0.437274  string    1
2000-01-07 -0.567182 -0.888657 -0.556383  string    1
2000-01-08  0.655457  1.117949 -2.782376  string    1

[8 rows x 5 columns]

In [69]: df1.get_dtype_counts()
Out[69]:
float64    3
int64      1
object     1
dtype: int64

  • performance improvements on table writing

  • support for arbitrarily indexed dimensions

  • SparseSeries now has a density property (GH2384)

  • enable Series.str.strip/lstrip/rstrip methods to take an input argument to strip arbitrary characters (GH2411)

  • implement value_vars in melt to limit values to certain columns and add melt to pandas namespace (GH2412)

Bug Fixes

  • added Term method of specifying where conditions (GH1996).

  • del store['df'] now call store.remove('df') for store deletion

  • deleting of consecutive rows is much faster than before

  • min_itemsize parameter can be specified in table creation to force a minimum size for indexing columns (the previous implementation would set the column size based on the first append)

  • indexing support via create_table_index (requires PyTables >= 2.3) (GH698).

  • appending on a store would fail if the table was not first created via put

  • fixed issue with missing attributes after loading a pickled dataframe (GH2431)

  • minor change to select and remove: require a table ONLY if where is also provided (and not None)

Compatibility

0.10 of HDFStore is backwards compatible for reading tables created in a prior version of pandas, however, query terms using the prior (undocumented) methodology are unsupported. You must read in the entire file and write it out using the new format to take advantage of the updates.

N dimensional Panels (experimental)

Adding experimental support for Panel4D and factory functions to create n-dimensional named panels. Here is a taste of what to expect.

In [58]: p4d = Panel4D(np.random.randn(2, 2, 5, 4),
  ....:       labels=['Label1','Label2'],
  ....:       items=['Item1', 'Item2'],
  ....:       major_axis=date_range('1/1/2000', periods=5),
  ....:       minor_axis=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
  ....:

In [59]: p4d
Out[59]:
<class 'pandas.core.panelnd.Panel4D'>
Dimensions: 2 (labels) x 2 (items) x 5 (major_axis) x 4 (minor_axis)
Labels axis: Label1 to Label2
Items axis: Item1 to Item2
Major_axis axis: 2000-01-01 00:00:00 to 2000-01-05 00:00:00
Minor_axis axis: A to D

See the full release notes or issue tracker on GitHub for a complete list.

Contributors

A total of 26 people contributed patches to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

  • A. Flaxman +

  • Abraham Flaxman

  • Adam Obeng +

  • Brenda Moon +

  • Chang She

  • Chris Mulligan +

  • Dieter Vandenbussche

  • Donald Curtis +

  • Jay Bourque +

  • Jeff Reback +

  • Justin C Johnson +

  • K.-Michael Aye

  • Keith Hughitt +

  • Ken Van Haren +

  • Laurent Gautier +

  • Luke Lee +

  • Martin Blais

  • Tobias Brandt +

  • Wes McKinney

  • Wouter Overmeire

  • alex arsenovic +

  • jreback +

  • locojaydev +

  • timmie

  • y-p

  • zach powers +

v0.10.1 (January 22, 2013) v0.9.1 (November 14, 2012)