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nl on Jan 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pandas 1.0

So you want the behavior that Pandas has (i.e., no silent casting of np.nan to the string "nan").

geoalchimista on Jan 30, 2020 [–]

The point I wanted to make was that string "nan" is usually not as useful as floating point NaN when dealing with numerical data. Therefore, as default behavior it is acceptable, if one has to make a choice.

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