BUG: Index on empty frame should be RangeIndex · Issue #52404 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd pd.DataFrame({}).columns

Issue Description

The above code returns

Index([], dtype='object')

Expected Behavior

But as stated in https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/whatsnew/v2.0.0.html#empty-dataframes-series-will-now-default-to-have-a-rangeindex it should return instead:

RangeIndex(start=0, stop=0, step=1)

which it does for

pd.DataFrame().columns pd.DataFrame(None).columns pd.DataFrame([]).columns pd.DataFrame(()).columns

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 478d340
python : 3.8.16.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.4.0-144-generic
Version : #161~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 10 15:55:22 UTC 2023
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_GB.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_GB.UTF-8

pandas : 2.0.0
numpy : 1.24.2
pytz : 2023.3
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 67.5.1
pip : 23.0.1
Cython : None
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 6.1.3
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : None
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : None
bottleneck : None
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : None
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.10.1
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None