add fix for opening zero observation dta files by bquistorff · Pull Request #7369 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

import pandas as pd pd.read_stata("no_obs_v115.dta") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\stata.py", line 49, in read_stata return reader.data(convert_dates, convert_categoricals, index) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\stata.py", line 855, in data data = DataFrame(data, columns=self.varlist, index=index) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 255, in init copy=copy) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 367, in _init_ndarray return create_block_manager_from_blocks([values.T], [columns, index]) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\internals.py", line 3185, in create_block_manager_from_blocks construction_error(tot_items, blocks[0].shape[1:], axes, e) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\internals.py", line 3166, in construction_error passed,implied)) ValueError: Shape of passed values is (0, 0), indices imply (1, 0) pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None python: 2.7.6.final.0 python-bits: 32 OS: Windows OS-release: 7 machine: AMD64 processor: AMD64 Family 16 Model 6 Stepping 3, AuthenticAMD byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: None

pandas: 0.14.0 nose: 1.3.3 Cython: 0.20.1 numpy: 1.8.1 scipy: None statsmodels: None IPython: None sphinx: None patsy: None scikits.timeseries: None dateutil: 2.2 pytz: 2014.3 bottleneck: 0.8.0 tables: None numexpr: None matplotlib: None openpyxl: 1.8.6 xlrd: None xlwt: None xlsxwriter: None lxml: None bs4: None html5lib: None bq: None apiclient: None rpy2: None sqlalchemy: None pymysql: None psycopg2: None

The PR fixes this issue in stata.py, though maybe the issue should be fixed in DataFrame.