setitem(s) do not cast bool to float/int (while they cast int to float and vice-versa) #21513
Labels
Bug
Dtype Conversions
Unexpected or buggy dtype conversions
Indexing
Related to indexing on series/frames, not to indexes themselves
Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible
Problem description
It's not necessarily obvious that booleans should be considered as a subset of integers (and floats), but given that we do cast floats to booleans, and floats and integers both ways, one would expect that booleans could also be casted to floats (and while it is true that
bool(3)
andbool(1)
are the same thing, so the mapping is not entirely trivial, the same could be said forint(1.5)
andint(1.0)
).(This is not specific of
__getitem__
, and also applies to.loc
and.iloc
)Expected Output
True
in all cases above.Output of
pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit: None
python: 3.5.3.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 4.9.0-6-amd64
machine: x86_64
processor:
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: it_IT.UTF-8
LOCALE: it_IT.UTF-8
pandas: 0.24.0.dev0+116.g9e982e186
pytest: 3.5.0
pip: 9.0.1
setuptools: 39.2.0
Cython: 0.25.2
numpy: 1.14.3
scipy: 0.19.0
pyarrow: None
xarray: None
IPython: 6.2.1
sphinx: 1.5.6
patsy: 0.5.0
dateutil: 2.7.3
pytz: 2018.4
blosc: None
bottleneck: 1.2.0dev
tables: 3.3.0
numexpr: 2.6.1
feather: 0.3.1
matplotlib: 2.2.2.post1153+gff6786446
openpyxl: 2.3.0
xlrd: 1.0.0
xlwt: 1.3.0
xlsxwriter: 0.9.6
lxml: 4.1.1
bs4: 4.5.3
html5lib: 0.999999999
sqlalchemy: 1.0.15
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.10
s3fs: None
fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: 0.2.1
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