Concatenating unordered CategoricalIndex overrides indices (original) (raw)

A very similar bug to #20425, but with CategoricalIndex instead of Categorical:

Code Sample

cat1 = pd.CategoricalIndex( ["a", "a",], categories=["a", "b"], ordered=False) cat2 = pd.CategoricalIndex( ["b", "b"], categories=["b", "a"], ordered=False)

df1 = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2]}, index=cat1) df2 = pd.DataFrame({"A": [3, 4]}, index=cat2) print(pd.concat((df1, df2))) # cat2 disappeared from index

A

a 1

a 2

a 3

a 4

Problem description

When the indices are unordered, a concatenation operation may yield wrong indices for the resulting DataFrame. If cat2's categories were ["a", "b"] the concatenation operation would've been successful.

Expected Output

cat3 = pd.CategoricalIndex( ["a", "a", "b", "b"], categories=["a", "b"], ordered=False) print(pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2, 3, 4]}, index=cat3))

A

a 1

a 2

b 3

b 4

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None
python: 3.6.7.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
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pyarrow: None
xarray: 0.11.0
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pytz: 2018.5
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: 3.4.4
numexpr: 2.6.8
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matplotlib: 3.0.1
openpyxl: None
xlrd: None
xlwt: None
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lxml: None
bs4: None
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pymysql: None
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fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None