pandas.DataFrame.pad — pandas 2.2.3 documentation (original) (raw)

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DataFrame.pad(*, axis=None, inplace=False, limit=None, downcast=<no_default>)[source]#

Fill NA/NaN values by propagating the last valid observation to next valid.

Deprecated since version 2.0: Series/DataFrame.pad is deprecated. Use Series/DataFrame.ffill instead.

Returns:

Series/DataFrame or None

Object with missing values filled or None if inplace=True.

Examples

Please see examples for DataFrame.ffill() or Series.ffill().