[Pandas-dev] [pydata] Feedback request for return value of empty or all-NA sum (0 or NA?)

Stephan Hoyer shoyer at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 14:28:29 EST 2017


On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:14 PM Chris Bartak <cbartak at gmail.com> wrote:

> I came to pandas from more a of SQL/BI/Excel/etc background rather than a
> scientific computing one.
>

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

As one minor point, I'll note that spreadsheets (at least Google Sheets,
but probably Excel as well) do define a sum without any valid entries as 0.
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