ENH: removed median percentile to be always included in describe GH #60550 #60557
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- fixes pandas-dev#60550 - median percentile is default when a blank list of percentiles is passed
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@mroeschke I don't think a separate test is needed as the core functionality remains the same. |
We should have had a test that when you specify Since we're changing the behavior, I think a test needs to be added. |
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@mroeschke @rhshadrach thanks for the feedback, the tests are now added. |
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@mroeschke, I hope you were able to look into this and merge the PR? |
Co-authored-by: Asish Mahapatra <[email protected]>
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@mroeschke please do the needful. |
pandas/core/methods/describe.py
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| @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ def describe_ndframe( | |||
| percentiles : list-like of numbers, optional | |||
| The percentiles to include in the output. All should fall between 0 and 1. | |||
| The default is ``[.25, .5, .75]``, which returns the 25th, 50th, and | |||
| 75th percentiles. | |||
| 75th percentiles.If a blank list is passed, then returns only the | |||
| - Median percentile is only included in :meth:`~Series.describe` when a blank | ||
| list is passed (:issue:`60550`). |
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Can you move this to v3.0.0.rst. We should not do this breaking change in 2.3.
| 75th percentiles. If a blank list is passed, then returns | ||
| only the 50th percentile value. |
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I do not think this should be the behavior. If I pass an empty list, I should not get any percentiles.
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I was trying to preserve the default percentile behavior. I will change this so that percentiles are omitted if a blank list is passed.
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I don't think we should remove the 50th percentile without at least a deprecation warning. Reporting the median by default is incredibly helpful (by default)
.describe(percentiles = [0.25])returns 25th- and 50th-percentile #60550pandas/tests/reductions/test_describe_ndframe.pyAdded type annotations to new arguments/methods/functions.NAdoc/source/whatsnew/v2.3.0.rstfile if fixing a bug or adding a new feature.