BUG: round on object columns no longer raises a TypeError (original) (raw)

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd df=pd.DataFrame(data=['foo'],columns=['bar']) df.loc[0,'bar']=0.2 df['bar'].round()

Out[4]: 0 0.2

Issue Description

pd.Series.round() appears to have changed behaviour in 2.2.3 compared to 2.1.4.
In previous versions, attempting to round a column with "object" dtype would raise a TypeError. In 2.2.3, round now silently returns the same column, without applying any rounding.

I'm not sure if there is some underlying change that causes this behaviour, but together with the removal of downcasting from a variety of methods (ffill, replace, fillna,...) this change in behaviour seems dangerous without any warnings.

Expected Behavior

import pandas as pd
df=pd.DataFrame(data=['foo'],columns=['bar'])
df.loc[0,'bar']=0.2
df['bar'].round()

TypeError: loop of ufunc does not support argument 0 of type float which has no callable rint method

Installed Versions

Details

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 0691c5c
python : 3.9.18
python-bits : 64
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