BUG: DataFrame.apply looses sparse dtype · Issue #23744 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

In [151]: df = pd.SparseDataFrame(np.array([[0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1]]), 
                                  columns=['a', 'b', 'c'], default_fill_value=0)
In [152]: df2 = pd.DataFrame(df)

In [153]: df.apply(np.exp)['a']
Out[153]: 
0    1.0
1    1.0
2    1.0
Name: a, dtype: Sparse[float64, 1.0]
BlockIndex
Block locations: array([], dtype=int32)
Block lengths: array([], dtype=int32)

In [155]: df2.apply(np.exp)['a']
Out[155]: 
0    1.0
1    1.0
2    1.0
Name: a, dtype: float64