BUG: (GH3588) fix pivoting with nan in the index

RELEASE.rst

@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ pandas 0.11.1
   - Fix plotting of unordered DatetimeIndex (GH3601_)
   - ``sql.write_frame`` failing when writing a single column to sqlite (GH3628_),
     thanks to @stonebig
+  - Fix pivoting with ``nan`` in the index (GH3558_)
 
 .. _GH3164: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3164
 .. _GH2786: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/2786
@@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ pandas 0.11.1
 .. _GH3617: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3617
 .. _GH3435: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3435
 .. _GH3611: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3611
+.. _GH3558: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3558
 .. _GH3062: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3062
 .. _GH3624: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3624
 .. _GH3626: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3626

pandas/core/indexing.py

@@ -469,11 +469,14 @@ def _reindex(keys, level=None):
 
                     missing = com._ensure_platform_int(missing)
                     missing_labels = keyarr.take(missing)
-                    missing_labels_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[~check])
+                    missing_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[~check])
                     cur_labels = result._get_axis(axis).values
-                    cur_labels_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[check])
-                    new_labels = lib.combine_from_indexers(cur_labels, cur_labels_indexer,
-                                                           missing_labels, missing_labels_indexer)
+                    cur_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[check])
+
+                    new_labels = np.empty(tuple([len(indexer)]),dtype=object)
+                    new_labels[cur_indexer] = cur_labels
+                    new_labels[missing_indexer]    = missing_labels
+
                     result = result.reindex_axis(new_labels,axis=axis)
 
                 return result

pandas/core/reshape.py

@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@
 
 from pandas.core.categorical import Categorical
 from pandas.core.common import (notnull, _ensure_platform_int, _maybe_promote,
-                                _maybe_upcast)
+                                _maybe_upcast, isnull)
 from pandas.core.groupby import (get_group_index, _compress_group_index,
                                  decons_group_index)
 import pandas.core.common as com
 import pandas.algos as algos
-
+from pandas import lib
 
 from pandas.core.index import MultiIndex, Index
 
@@ -67,7 +67,14 @@ def __init__(self, values, index, level=-1, value_columns=None):
         self.index = index
         self.level = self.index._get_level_number(level)
 
-        self.new_index_levels = list(index.levels)
+        levels = index.levels
+        labels = index.labels
+        def _make_index(lev,lab):
+            i = lev.__class__(_make_index_array_level(lev.values,lab))
+            i.name = lev.name
+            return i
+
+        self.new_index_levels = list([ _make_index(lev,lab) for lev,lab in zip(levels,labels) ])
         self.new_index_names = list(index.names)
 
         self.removed_name = self.new_index_names.pop(self.level)
@@ -140,6 +147,19 @@ def get_result(self):
                 values = com.take_nd(values, inds, axis=1)
                 columns = columns[inds]
 
+        # we might have a missing index
+        if len(index) != values.shape[0]:
+            mask = isnull(index)
+            if mask.any():
+                l = np.arange(len(index))
+                values, orig_values = np.empty((len(index),values.shape[1])), values
+                values.fill(np.nan)
+                values_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[~mask])
+                for i, j in enumerate(values_indexer):
+                    values[j] = orig_values[i]
+            else:
+                index = index.take(self.unique_groups)
+
         return DataFrame(values, index=index, columns=columns)
 
     def get_new_values(self):
@@ -201,11 +221,13 @@ def get_new_columns(self):
     def get_new_index(self):
         result_labels = []
         for cur in self.sorted_labels[:-1]:
-            result_labels.append(cur.take(self.compressor))
+            labels = cur.take(self.compressor)
+            labels = _make_index_array_level(labels,cur)
+            result_labels.append(labels)
 
         # construct the new index
         if len(self.new_index_levels) == 1:
-            new_index = self.new_index_levels[0].take(self.unique_groups)
+            new_index = self.new_index_levels[0]
             new_index.name = self.new_index_names[0]
         else:
             new_index = MultiIndex(levels=self.new_index_levels,
@@ -215,6 +237,26 @@ def get_new_index(self):
         return new_index
 
 
+def _make_index_array_level(lev,lab):
+    """ create the combined index array, preserving nans, return an array """
+    mask = lab == -1
+    if not mask.any():
+        return lev
+
+    l = np.arange(len(lab))
+    mask_labels  = np.empty(len(mask[mask]),dtype=object)
+    mask_labels.fill(np.nan)
+    mask_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[mask])
+
+    labels = lev
+    labels_indexer = com._ensure_int64(l[~mask])
+
+    new_labels = np.empty(tuple([len(lab)]),dtype=object)
+    new_labels[labels_indexer] = labels
+    new_labels[mask_indexer]   = mask_labels
+
+    return new_labels
+
 def _unstack_multiple(data, clocs):
     if len(clocs) == 0:
         return data

pandas/lib.pyx

@@ -416,26 +416,6 @@ def dicts_to_array(list dicts, list columns):
 
     return result
 
-@cython.wraparound(False)
-@cython.boundscheck(False)
-def combine_from_indexers(ndarray a, ndarray[int64_t] a_indexer,
-                          ndarray b, ndarray[int64_t] b_indexer):
-    cdef:
-        Py_ssize_t i, n_a, n_b
-        ndarray result
-
-    n_a = len(a)
-    n_b = len(b)
-    result = np.empty(n_a+n_b,dtype=object)
-
-    for i in range(n_a):
-        result[a_indexer[i]] = a[i]
-    for i in range(n_b):
-        result[b_indexer[i]] = b[i]
-
-    return result
-
-
 def fast_zip(list ndarrays):
     '''
     For zipping multiple ndarrays into an ndarray of tuples

pandas/tests/test_indexing.py

@@ -840,6 +840,16 @@ def test_set_index_nan(self):
         result = df.set_index(['year','PRuid','QC']).reset_index().reindex(columns=df.columns)
         assert_frame_equal(result,df)
 
+    def test_multi_nan_indexing(self):
+
+        # GH 3588
+        df = DataFrame({"a":['R1', 'R2', np.nan, 'R4'], 'b':["C1", "C2", "C3" , "C4"], "c":[10, 15, np.nan , 20]})
+        result = df.set_index(['a','b'], drop=False)
+        expected = DataFrame({"a":['R1', 'R2', np.nan, 'R4'], 'b':["C1", "C2", "C3" , "C4"], "c":[10, 15, np.nan , 20]},
+                             index = [Index(['R1','R2',np.nan,'R4'],name='a'),Index(['C1','C2','C3','C4'],name='b')])
+        assert_frame_equal(result,expected)
+
+
     def test_iloc_panel_issue(self):
 
         # GH 3617

pandas/tools/tests/test_pivot.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 
-from pandas import DataFrame, Series
+from pandas import DataFrame, Series, Index
 from pandas.tools.merge import concat
 from pandas.tools.pivot import pivot_table, crosstab
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
@@ -129,6 +129,17 @@ def test_pivot_multi_functions(self):
         expected = concat([means, stds], keys=['mean', 'std'], axis=1)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
+    def test_pivot_index_with_nan(self):
+        # GH 3588
+        nan = np.nan
+        df = DataFrame({"a":['R1', 'R2', nan, 'R4'], 'b':["C1", "C2", "C3" , "C4"], "c":[10, 15, nan , 20]})
+        result = df.pivot('a','b','c')
+        expected = DataFrame([[nan,nan,nan,nan],[nan,10,nan,nan], 
+                              [nan,nan,nan,nan],[nan,nan,15,20]],
+                             index = Index(['R1','R2',nan,'R4'],name='a'),
+                             columns = Index(['C1','C2','C3','C4'],name='b'))
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
     def test_margins(self):
         def _check_output(res, col, rows=['A', 'B'], cols=['C']):
             cmarg = res['All'][:-1]