TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced
Question:
I am trying to convert a csv into numpy array. In the numpy array, I am replacing few elements with NaN. Then, I wanted to find the indices of the NaN elements in the numpy array. The code is :
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plyt
import numpy as np
filename = 'wether.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(filename,header = None )
list = df.values.tolist()
labels = list[0]
wether_list = list[1:]
year = []
month = []
day = []
max_temp = []
for i in wether_list:
year.append(i[1])
month.append(i[2])
day.append(i[3])
max_temp.append(i[5])
mid = len(max_temp) // 2
temps = np.array(max_temp[mid:])
temps[np.where(np.array(temps) == -99.9)] = np.nan
plyt.plot(temps,marker = '.',color = 'black',linestyle = 'none')
# plyt.show()
print(np.where(np.isnan(temps))[0])
# print(len(pd.isnull(np.array(temps))))
When I execute this, I am getting a warning and an error. The warning is :
wether.py:26: FutureWarning: elementwise comparison failed; returning scalar instead, but in the future will perform elementwise comparison
temps[np.where(np.array(temps) == -99.9)] = np.nan
The error is :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "wether.py", line 30, in <module>
print(np.where(np.isnan(temps))[0])
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
This is a part of the dataset which I am using:
83168,2014,9,7,0.00000,89.00000,78.00000, 83.50000
83168,2014,9,22,1.62000,90.00000,72.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,9,23,0.50000,87.00000,74.00000, 80.50000
83168,2014,9,24,0.35000,82.00000,73.00000, 77.50000
83168,2014,9,25,0.60000,85.00000,75.00000, 80.00000
83168,2014,9,26,0.76000,89.00000,77.00000, 83.00000
83168,2014,9,27,0.00000,89.00000,79.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,9,28,0.00000,90.00000,81.00000, 85.50000
83168,2014,9,29,0.00000,90.00000,79.00000, 84.50000
83168,2014,9,30,0.50000,89.00000,75.00000, 82.00000
83168,2014,10,1,0.02000,91.00000,75.00000, 83.00000
83168,2014,10,2,0.03000,93.00000,77.00000, 85.00000
83168,2014,10,3,1.40000,93.00000,75.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,10,4,0.06000,89.00000,75.00000, 82.00000
83168,2014,10,5,0.22000,91.00000,68.00000, 79.50000
83168,2014,10,6,0.00000,84.00000,68.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,7,0.17000,85.00000,73.00000, 79.00000
83168,2014,10,8,0.06000,84.00000,73.00000, 78.50000
83168,2014,10,9,0.00000,87.00000,73.00000, 80.00000
83168,2014,10,10,0.00000,88.00000,80.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,10,11,0.00000,87.00000,80.00000, 83.50000
83168,2014,10,12,0.00000,88.00000,80.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,10,13,0.00000,88.00000,81.00000, 84.50000
83168,2014,10,14,0.04000,88.00000,77.00000, 82.50000
83168,2014,10,15,0.00000,88.00000,77.00000, 82.50000
83168,2014,10,16,0.09000,89.00000,72.00000, 80.50000
83168,2014,10,17,0.00000,85.00000,67.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,18,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,19,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,20,0.00000,85.00000,69.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,10,21,0.77000,87.00000,76.00000, 81.50000
83168,2014,10,22,0.69000,81.00000,71.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,23,0.31000,82.00000,72.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,10,24,0.71000,79.00000,73.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,25,0.00000,81.00000,68.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,26,0.00000,82.00000,67.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,27,0.00000,83.00000,64.00000, 73.50000
83168,2014,10,28,0.00000,83.00000,66.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,29,0.03000,86.00000,76.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,10,30,0.00000,85.00000,69.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,10,31,0.00000,85.00000,69.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,11,1,0.00000,86.00000,59.00000, 72.50000
83168,2014,11,2,0.00000,77.00000,52.00000, 64.50000
83168,2014,11,3,0.00000,70.00000,52.00000, 61.00000
83168,2014,11,4,0.00000,77.00000,59.00000, 68.00000
83168,2014,11,5,0.02000,79.00000,73.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,11,6,0.02000,82.00000,75.00000, 78.50000
83168,2014,11,7,0.00000,83.00000,66.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,11,8,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,11,9,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,11,10,1.20000,72.00000,65.00000, 68.50000
83168,2014,11,11,0.08000,77.00000,61.00000, 69.00000
83168,2014,11,12,0.00000,80.00000,61.00000, 70.50000
83168,2014,11,13,0.00000,83.00000,63.00000, 73.00000
83168,2014,11,14,0.00000,83.00000,65.00000, 74.00000
83168,2014,11,15,0.00000,82.00000,64.00000, 73.00000
83168,2014,11,16,0.00000,83.00000,64.00000, 73.50000
83168,2014,11,17,0.07000,84.00000,64.00000, 74.00000
83168,2014,11,18,0.00000,86.00000,71.00000, 78.50000
83168,2014,11,19,0.57000,78.00000,55.00000, 66.50000
83168,2014,11,20,0.05000,72.00000,56.00000, 64.00000
83168,2014,11,21,0.05000,77.00000,63.00000, 70.00000
83168,2014,11,22,0.22000,77.00000,69.00000, 73.00000
83168,2014,11,23,0.06000,79.00000,76.00000, 77.50000
83168,2014,11,24,0.02000,84.00000,78.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,11,25,0.00000,86.00000,78.00000, 82.00000
83168,2014,11,26,0.07000,85.00000,77.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,11,27,0.21000,82.00000,55.00000, 68.50000
83168,2014,11,28,0.00000,73.00000,53.00000, 63.00000
83168,2015,1,8,0.00000,80.00000,57.00000,
83168,2015,1,9,0.05000,72.00000,56.00000,
83168,2015,1,10,0.00000,72.00000,57.00000,
83168,2015,1,11,0.00000,80.00000,57.00000,
83168,2015,1,12,0.05000,80.00000,59.00000,
83168,2015,1,13,0.85000,81.00000,69.00000,
83168,2015,1,14,0.05000,81.00000,68.00000,
83168,2015,1,15,0.00000,81.00000,64.00000,
83168,2015,1,16,0.00000,78.00000,63.00000,
83168,2015,1,17,0.00000,73.00000,55.00000,
83168,2015,1,18,0.00000,76.00000,55.00000,
83168,2015,1,19,0.00000,78.00000,55.00000,
83168,2015,1,20,0.00000,75.00000,56.00000,
83168,2015,1,21,0.02000,73.00000,65.00000,
83168,2015,1,22,0.00000,80.00000,64.00000,
83168,2015,1,23,0.00000,80.00000,71.00000,
83168,2015,1,24,0.00000,79.00000,72.00000,
83168,2015,1,25,0.00000,79.00000,49.00000,
83168,2015,1,26,0.00000,79.00000,49.00000,
83168,2015,1,27,0.10000,75.00000,53.00000,
83168,2015,1,28,0.00000,68.00000,53.00000,
83168,2015,1,29,0.00000,69.00000,53.00000,
83168,2015,1,30,0.00000,72.00000,60.00000,
83168,2015,1,31,0.00000,76.00000,58.00000,
83168,2015,2,1,0.00000,76.00000,58.00000,
83168,2015,2,2,0.05000,77.00000,58.00000,
83168,2015,2,3,0.00000,84.00000,56.00000,
83168,2015,2,4,0.00000,76.00000,56.00000,
I am unable to rectify the error. How to overcome the warning in the 26th line? How can one solve this error?
Update :
when I try the same thing in different way like reading dataset from file instead of converting to dataframes, I am not getting the error. What would be the reason for that? The code is :
weather_filename = 'wether.csv'
weather_file = open(weather_filename)
weather_data = weather_file.read()
weather_file.close()
# Break the weather records into lines
lines = weather_data.split('n')
labels = lines[0]
values = lines[1:]
n_values = len(values)
# Break the list of comma-separated value strings
# into lists of values.
year = []
month = []
day = []
max_temp = []
j_year = 1
j_month = 2
j_day = 3
j_max_temp = 5
for i_row in range(n_values):
split_values = values[i_row].split(',')
if len(split_values) >= j_max_temp:
year.append(int(split_values[j_year]))
month.append(int(split_values[j_month]))
day.append(int(split_values[j_day]))
max_temp.append(float(split_values[j_max_temp]))
# Isolate the recent data.
i_mid = len(max_temp) // 2
temps = np.array(max_temp[i_mid:])
year = year[i_mid:]
month = month[i_mid:]
day = day[i_mid:]
temps[np.where(temps == -99.9)] = np.nan
# Remove all the nans.
# Trim both ends and fill nans in the middle.
# Find the first non-nan.
i_start = np.where(np.logical_not(np.isnan(temps)))[0][0]
temps = temps[i_start:]
year = year[i_start:]
month = month[i_start:]
day = day[i_start:]
i_nans = np.where(np.isnan(temps))[0]
print(i_nans)
What is wrong in the first code and why the second doesn’t even give a warning?
Answers:
What’s the dtype of temps. I can reproduce your warning and error with a string dtype:
In [26]: temps = np.array([1,2,'string',0])
In [27]: temps
Out[27]: array(['1', '2', 'string', '0'], dtype='<U21')
In [28]: temps==-99.9
/usr/local/bin/ipython3:1: FutureWarning: elementwise comparison failed; returning scalar instead, but in the future will perform elementwise comparison
#!/usr/bin/python3
Out[28]: False
In [29]: np.isnan(temps)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-29-2ff7754ed926> in <module>()
----> 1 np.isnan(temps)
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
First, comparing strings with the number gives this future warning.
Second, testing for nan produces the error.
Note that given the dtype, the nan assignment assigns a string value, not a float (np.nan is a float).
In [30]: temps[-1] = np.nan
In [31]: temps
Out[31]: array(['1', '2', 'string', 'nan'], dtype='<U21')
Note: This answer is somewhat related to the title of the question because this error prompts when working with Decimal types.
I got the same error when considering Decimal type values. For some reason, one column of the dataframe I’m considering comes as decimal. For example, when calling .unique() on this column I got
[Decimal('0'), Decimal('95'), Decimal('38'), Decimal('25'),
Decimal('42'), Decimal('11'), Decimal('18'), Decimal('22'),
.....Decimal('220'), Decimal('724')]
As the traceback of the error showed me that it failed when calling some numpy function. I manage to reproduce the error by considering the min and maxvalues of the above array
from decimal import Decimal
xmin, xmax = Decimal('0'), Decimal('724')
np.isnan([xmin, xmax])
it will prompt the error
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
The solution in this case was to cast all these values to int.
df.astype({col:int for col in desired_columns_to_convert})
isnan(ndarray) fails on ndarray dtype of "object"
isnan(ndarray.astype(np.float)), but strings cannot be coerced to float.
Posting as it might help future users.
As correctly pointed out by others, np.isnan won’t work for object or string dtypes. If you’re using pandas, as mentioned here you can directly use pd.isnull, which should work in your case.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
var1 = ''
var2 = np.nan
>>> type(var1)
<class 'str'>
>>> type(var2)
<class 'float'>
>>> pd.isnull(var1)
False
>>> pd.isnull(var2)
True
Try replacing np.isnan with pd.isna. Pandas’ isna supports category dtypes
This is likely a result of an unwanted float to string conversion. To repair it, just reverse it by adding string-to-float conversion (assuming data is convertible to a number) using float or np.float64:
np.isnan(float(str(np.nan)))
True
or
np.isnan(float(str("nan")))
True
rather than:
np.isnan(str(np.nan))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [164], line 1
----> 1 np.isnan(str(np.nan))
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
Note that if your data is NOT convertible to numbers (floats), you need to use a string-compatible function such as pd.isna instead of np.isnan.
I came across this error when trying to transform my dataset using sklearn.preprocessing.OneHotEncoder. The error was thrown by _check_unknown function defined in sklearn.utils._encode.
This was caused by the fact that, at transform time, one of the columns to be transformed had a type float64 as opposed to object – in my case an entire column was NaN.
The solution was to cast the dataframe to object type before invoking transform:
ohe.transform(data.astype("O"))
I am trying to convert a csv into numpy array. In the numpy array, I am replacing few elements with NaN. Then, I wanted to find the indices of the NaN elements in the numpy array. The code is :
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plyt
import numpy as np
filename = 'wether.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(filename,header = None )
list = df.values.tolist()
labels = list[0]
wether_list = list[1:]
year = []
month = []
day = []
max_temp = []
for i in wether_list:
year.append(i[1])
month.append(i[2])
day.append(i[3])
max_temp.append(i[5])
mid = len(max_temp) // 2
temps = np.array(max_temp[mid:])
temps[np.where(np.array(temps) == -99.9)] = np.nan
plyt.plot(temps,marker = '.',color = 'black',linestyle = 'none')
# plyt.show()
print(np.where(np.isnan(temps))[0])
# print(len(pd.isnull(np.array(temps))))
When I execute this, I am getting a warning and an error. The warning is :
wether.py:26: FutureWarning: elementwise comparison failed; returning scalar instead, but in the future will perform elementwise comparison
temps[np.where(np.array(temps) == -99.9)] = np.nan
The error is :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "wether.py", line 30, in <module>
print(np.where(np.isnan(temps))[0])
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
This is a part of the dataset which I am using:
83168,2014,9,7,0.00000,89.00000,78.00000, 83.50000
83168,2014,9,22,1.62000,90.00000,72.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,9,23,0.50000,87.00000,74.00000, 80.50000
83168,2014,9,24,0.35000,82.00000,73.00000, 77.50000
83168,2014,9,25,0.60000,85.00000,75.00000, 80.00000
83168,2014,9,26,0.76000,89.00000,77.00000, 83.00000
83168,2014,9,27,0.00000,89.00000,79.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,9,28,0.00000,90.00000,81.00000, 85.50000
83168,2014,9,29,0.00000,90.00000,79.00000, 84.50000
83168,2014,9,30,0.50000,89.00000,75.00000, 82.00000
83168,2014,10,1,0.02000,91.00000,75.00000, 83.00000
83168,2014,10,2,0.03000,93.00000,77.00000, 85.00000
83168,2014,10,3,1.40000,93.00000,75.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,10,4,0.06000,89.00000,75.00000, 82.00000
83168,2014,10,5,0.22000,91.00000,68.00000, 79.50000
83168,2014,10,6,0.00000,84.00000,68.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,7,0.17000,85.00000,73.00000, 79.00000
83168,2014,10,8,0.06000,84.00000,73.00000, 78.50000
83168,2014,10,9,0.00000,87.00000,73.00000, 80.00000
83168,2014,10,10,0.00000,88.00000,80.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,10,11,0.00000,87.00000,80.00000, 83.50000
83168,2014,10,12,0.00000,88.00000,80.00000, 84.00000
83168,2014,10,13,0.00000,88.00000,81.00000, 84.50000
83168,2014,10,14,0.04000,88.00000,77.00000, 82.50000
83168,2014,10,15,0.00000,88.00000,77.00000, 82.50000
83168,2014,10,16,0.09000,89.00000,72.00000, 80.50000
83168,2014,10,17,0.00000,85.00000,67.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,18,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,19,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,20,0.00000,85.00000,69.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,10,21,0.77000,87.00000,76.00000, 81.50000
83168,2014,10,22,0.69000,81.00000,71.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,23,0.31000,82.00000,72.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,10,24,0.71000,79.00000,73.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,10,25,0.00000,81.00000,68.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,26,0.00000,82.00000,67.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,27,0.00000,83.00000,64.00000, 73.50000
83168,2014,10,28,0.00000,83.00000,66.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,10,29,0.03000,86.00000,76.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,10,30,0.00000,85.00000,69.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,10,31,0.00000,85.00000,69.00000, 77.00000
83168,2014,11,1,0.00000,86.00000,59.00000, 72.50000
83168,2014,11,2,0.00000,77.00000,52.00000, 64.50000
83168,2014,11,3,0.00000,70.00000,52.00000, 61.00000
83168,2014,11,4,0.00000,77.00000,59.00000, 68.00000
83168,2014,11,5,0.02000,79.00000,73.00000, 76.00000
83168,2014,11,6,0.02000,82.00000,75.00000, 78.50000
83168,2014,11,7,0.00000,83.00000,66.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,11,8,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,11,9,0.00000,84.00000,65.00000, 74.50000
83168,2014,11,10,1.20000,72.00000,65.00000, 68.50000
83168,2014,11,11,0.08000,77.00000,61.00000, 69.00000
83168,2014,11,12,0.00000,80.00000,61.00000, 70.50000
83168,2014,11,13,0.00000,83.00000,63.00000, 73.00000
83168,2014,11,14,0.00000,83.00000,65.00000, 74.00000
83168,2014,11,15,0.00000,82.00000,64.00000, 73.00000
83168,2014,11,16,0.00000,83.00000,64.00000, 73.50000
83168,2014,11,17,0.07000,84.00000,64.00000, 74.00000
83168,2014,11,18,0.00000,86.00000,71.00000, 78.50000
83168,2014,11,19,0.57000,78.00000,55.00000, 66.50000
83168,2014,11,20,0.05000,72.00000,56.00000, 64.00000
83168,2014,11,21,0.05000,77.00000,63.00000, 70.00000
83168,2014,11,22,0.22000,77.00000,69.00000, 73.00000
83168,2014,11,23,0.06000,79.00000,76.00000, 77.50000
83168,2014,11,24,0.02000,84.00000,78.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,11,25,0.00000,86.00000,78.00000, 82.00000
83168,2014,11,26,0.07000,85.00000,77.00000, 81.00000
83168,2014,11,27,0.21000,82.00000,55.00000, 68.50000
83168,2014,11,28,0.00000,73.00000,53.00000, 63.00000
83168,2015,1,8,0.00000,80.00000,57.00000,
83168,2015,1,9,0.05000,72.00000,56.00000,
83168,2015,1,10,0.00000,72.00000,57.00000,
83168,2015,1,11,0.00000,80.00000,57.00000,
83168,2015,1,12,0.05000,80.00000,59.00000,
83168,2015,1,13,0.85000,81.00000,69.00000,
83168,2015,1,14,0.05000,81.00000,68.00000,
83168,2015,1,15,0.00000,81.00000,64.00000,
83168,2015,1,16,0.00000,78.00000,63.00000,
83168,2015,1,17,0.00000,73.00000,55.00000,
83168,2015,1,18,0.00000,76.00000,55.00000,
83168,2015,1,19,0.00000,78.00000,55.00000,
83168,2015,1,20,0.00000,75.00000,56.00000,
83168,2015,1,21,0.02000,73.00000,65.00000,
83168,2015,1,22,0.00000,80.00000,64.00000,
83168,2015,1,23,0.00000,80.00000,71.00000,
83168,2015,1,24,0.00000,79.00000,72.00000,
83168,2015,1,25,0.00000,79.00000,49.00000,
83168,2015,1,26,0.00000,79.00000,49.00000,
83168,2015,1,27,0.10000,75.00000,53.00000,
83168,2015,1,28,0.00000,68.00000,53.00000,
83168,2015,1,29,0.00000,69.00000,53.00000,
83168,2015,1,30,0.00000,72.00000,60.00000,
83168,2015,1,31,0.00000,76.00000,58.00000,
83168,2015,2,1,0.00000,76.00000,58.00000,
83168,2015,2,2,0.05000,77.00000,58.00000,
83168,2015,2,3,0.00000,84.00000,56.00000,
83168,2015,2,4,0.00000,76.00000,56.00000,
I am unable to rectify the error. How to overcome the warning in the 26th line? How can one solve this error?
Update :
when I try the same thing in different way like reading dataset from file instead of converting to dataframes, I am not getting the error. What would be the reason for that? The code is :
weather_filename = 'wether.csv'
weather_file = open(weather_filename)
weather_data = weather_file.read()
weather_file.close()
# Break the weather records into lines
lines = weather_data.split('n')
labels = lines[0]
values = lines[1:]
n_values = len(values)
# Break the list of comma-separated value strings
# into lists of values.
year = []
month = []
day = []
max_temp = []
j_year = 1
j_month = 2
j_day = 3
j_max_temp = 5
for i_row in range(n_values):
split_values = values[i_row].split(',')
if len(split_values) >= j_max_temp:
year.append(int(split_values[j_year]))
month.append(int(split_values[j_month]))
day.append(int(split_values[j_day]))
max_temp.append(float(split_values[j_max_temp]))
# Isolate the recent data.
i_mid = len(max_temp) // 2
temps = np.array(max_temp[i_mid:])
year = year[i_mid:]
month = month[i_mid:]
day = day[i_mid:]
temps[np.where(temps == -99.9)] = np.nan
# Remove all the nans.
# Trim both ends and fill nans in the middle.
# Find the first non-nan.
i_start = np.where(np.logical_not(np.isnan(temps)))[0][0]
temps = temps[i_start:]
year = year[i_start:]
month = month[i_start:]
day = day[i_start:]
i_nans = np.where(np.isnan(temps))[0]
print(i_nans)
What is wrong in the first code and why the second doesn’t even give a warning?
What’s the dtype of temps. I can reproduce your warning and error with a string dtype:
In [26]: temps = np.array([1,2,'string',0])
In [27]: temps
Out[27]: array(['1', '2', 'string', '0'], dtype='<U21')
In [28]: temps==-99.9
/usr/local/bin/ipython3:1: FutureWarning: elementwise comparison failed; returning scalar instead, but in the future will perform elementwise comparison
#!/usr/bin/python3
Out[28]: False
In [29]: np.isnan(temps)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-29-2ff7754ed926> in <module>()
----> 1 np.isnan(temps)
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
First, comparing strings with the number gives this future warning.
Second, testing for nan produces the error.
Note that given the dtype, the nan assignment assigns a string value, not a float (np.nan is a float).
In [30]: temps[-1] = np.nan
In [31]: temps
Out[31]: array(['1', '2', 'string', 'nan'], dtype='<U21')
Note: This answer is somewhat related to the title of the question because this error prompts when working with Decimal types.
I got the same error when considering Decimal type values. For some reason, one column of the dataframe I’m considering comes as decimal. For example, when calling .unique() on this column I got
[Decimal('0'), Decimal('95'), Decimal('38'), Decimal('25'),
Decimal('42'), Decimal('11'), Decimal('18'), Decimal('22'),
.....Decimal('220'), Decimal('724')]
As the traceback of the error showed me that it failed when calling some numpy function. I manage to reproduce the error by considering the min and maxvalues of the above array
from decimal import Decimal
xmin, xmax = Decimal('0'), Decimal('724')
np.isnan([xmin, xmax])
it will prompt the error
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
The solution in this case was to cast all these values to int.
df.astype({col:int for col in desired_columns_to_convert})
isnan(ndarray) fails on ndarray dtype of "object"
isnan(ndarray.astype(np.float)), but strings cannot be coerced to float.
Posting as it might help future users.
As correctly pointed out by others, np.isnan won’t work for object or string dtypes. If you’re using pandas, as mentioned here you can directly use pd.isnull, which should work in your case.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
var1 = ''
var2 = np.nan
>>> type(var1)
<class 'str'>
>>> type(var2)
<class 'float'>
>>> pd.isnull(var1)
False
>>> pd.isnull(var2)
True
Try replacing np.isnan with pd.isna. Pandas’ isna supports category dtypes
This is likely a result of an unwanted float to string conversion. To repair it, just reverse it by adding string-to-float conversion (assuming data is convertible to a number) using float or np.float64:
np.isnan(float(str(np.nan)))
True
or
np.isnan(float(str("nan")))
True
rather than:
np.isnan(str(np.nan))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [164], line 1
----> 1 np.isnan(str(np.nan))
TypeError: ufunc 'isnan' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
Note that if your data is NOT convertible to numbers (floats), you need to use a string-compatible function such as pd.isna instead of np.isnan.
I came across this error when trying to transform my dataset using sklearn.preprocessing.OneHotEncoder. The error was thrown by _check_unknown function defined in sklearn.utils._encode.
This was caused by the fact that, at transform time, one of the columns to be transformed had a type float64 as opposed to object – in my case an entire column was NaN.
The solution was to cast the dataframe to object type before invoking transform:
ohe.transform(data.astype("O"))