ENH: dropna should accept single column as string in subset argument (original) (raw)

Is your feature request related to a problem?

When giving a string in the subset argument to dropna based on a single column, we get an error:

Index(...) must be called with a collection of some kind, 'C' was passed

Describe the solution you'd like

DataFrame.dropna should accept a single column subset as a string just like DataFrame.drop_duplicates

API breaking implications

None I could think of

df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 1, 3], "B": list("abc"), "C": [4, np.NaN, 5]}) print(df)

A B C 0 1 a 4.0 1 2 b NaN 2 3 c 5.0

df = df.dropna(subset="C") print(df)

A B C 0 1 a 4.0 2 3 c 5.0