pandas.SparseDtype#

class pandas.SparseDtype(dtype=<class 'numpy.float64'>, fill_value=None)[source]#

Dtype for data stored in SparseArray.

This dtype implements the pandas ExtensionDtype interface.

Parameters
dtypestr, ExtensionDtype, numpy.dtype, type, default numpy.float64

The dtype of the underlying array storing the non-fill value values.

fill_valuescalar, optional

The scalar value not stored in the SparseArray. By default, this depends on dtype.

dtype

na_value

float

np.nan

int

0

bool

False

datetime64

pd.NaT

timedelta64

pd.NaT

The default value may be overridden by specifying a fill_value.

Attributes

None

Methods

None