BUG: Series.replace NA->NaN

Author: jbrockmendel

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -1217,10 +1217,11 @@ Other
 - Bug in printing a :class:`DataFrame` with a :class:`DataFrame` stored in :attr:`DataFrame.attrs` raised a ``ValueError`` (:issue:`60455`)
 - Bug in printing a :class:`Series` with a :class:`DataFrame` stored in :attr:`Series.attrs` raised a ``ValueError`` (:issue:`60568`)
 - Deprecated the keyword ``check_datetimelike_compat`` in :meth:`testing.assert_frame_equal` and :meth:`testing.assert_series_equal` (:issue:`55638`)
+- Fixed bug in :meth:`Series.replace` and :meth:`DataFrame.replace` when trying to replace :class:`NA` values in a :class:`Float64Dtype` object with ``np.nan``; this now works with ``pd.set_option("mode.nan_is_na", False)`` and is irrelevant otherwise (:issue:`55127`)
+- Fixed bug in :meth:`Series.replace` and :meth:`DataFrame.replace` when trying to replace :class:`np.nan` values in a :class:`Int64Dtype` object with :class:`NA`; this is now a no-op with ``pd.set_option("mode.nan_is_na", False)`` and is irrelevant otherwise (:issue:`55127`)
 - Fixed bug in the :meth:`Series.rank` with object dtype and extremely small float values (:issue:`62036`)
 - Fixed bug where the :class:`DataFrame` constructor misclassified array-like objects with a ``.name`` attribute as :class:`Series` or :class:`Index` (:issue:`61443`)
 - Fixed regression in :meth:`DataFrame.from_records` not initializing subclasses properly (:issue:`57008`)
--
 
 .. ***DO NOT USE THIS SECTION***
 

pandas/core/arrays/masked.py

@@ -312,7 +312,9 @@ def __setitem__(self, key, value) -> None:
         key = check_array_indexer(self, key)
 
         if is_scalar(value):
-            if is_valid_na_for_dtype(value, self.dtype):
+            if is_valid_na_for_dtype(value, self.dtype) and not (
+                lib.is_float(value) and not is_nan_na()
+            ):
                 self._mask[key] = True
             else:
                 value = self._validate_setitem_value(value)

pandas/core/missing.py

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 
+from pandas._config import is_nan_na
+
 from pandas._libs import (
     NaT,
     algos,
@@ -37,7 +39,11 @@
     is_object_dtype,
     needs_i8_conversion,
 )
-from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import DatetimeTZDtype
+from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import (
+    ArrowDtype,
+    BaseMaskedDtype,
+    DatetimeTZDtype,
+)
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import (
     is_valid_na_for_dtype,
     isna,
@@ -86,6 +92,29 @@ def mask_missing(arr: ArrayLike, value) -> npt.NDArray[np.bool_]:
     """
     dtype, value = infer_dtype_from(value)
 
+    if (
+        isinstance(arr.dtype, (BaseMaskedDtype, ArrowDtype))
+        and lib.is_float(value)
+        and np.isnan(value)
+        and not is_nan_na()
+    ):
+        # TODO: this should be done in an EA method?
+        if arr.dtype.kind == "f":
+            # GH#55127
+            if isinstance(arr.dtype, BaseMaskedDtype):
+                mask = np.isnan(arr._data) & ~arr.isna()
+                return mask
+            else:
+                import pyarrow.compute as pc
+
+                mask = pc.is_nan(arr._pa_array).fill_null(False).to_numpy()
+                return mask
+
+        elif arr.dtype.kind in "iu":
+            # GH#51237
+            mask = np.zeros(arr.shape, dtype=bool)
+            return mask
+
     if isna(value):
         return isna(arr)
 

pandas/tests/arrays/masked/test_indexing.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
+import pandas.util._test_decorators as td
+
 import pandas as pd
 
 
@@ -58,3 +60,47 @@ def test_setitem_validation_scalar_int(self, invalid, any_int_ea_dtype):
     def test_setitem_validation_scalar_float(self, invalid, float_ea_dtype):
         arr = pd.array([1, 2, None], dtype=float_ea_dtype)
         self._check_setitem_invalid(arr, invalid)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "dtype",
+    [
+        "Float64",
+        pytest.param("float64[pyarrow]", marks=td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("indexer", [1, [1], [False, True, False]])
+def test_setitem_nan_in_float64_array(dtype, indexer, using_nan_is_na):
+    arr = pd.array([0, pd.NA, 1], dtype=dtype)
+
+    arr[indexer] = np.nan
+    if not using_nan_is_na:
+        assert np.isnan(arr[1])
+    else:
+        assert arr[1] is pd.NA
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "dtype",
+    [
+        "Int64",
+        pytest.param("int64[pyarrow]", marks=td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("indexer", [1, [1], [False, True, False]])
+def test_setitem_nan_in_int64_array(dtype, indexer, using_nan_is_na):
+    arr = pd.array([0, 1, 2], dtype=dtype)
+    if not using_nan_is_na:
+        err = TypeError
+        msg = "Invalid value 'nan' for dtype 'Int64'"
+        if dtype == "int64[pyarrow]":
+            import pyarrow as pa
+
+            err = pa.lib.ArrowInvalid
+            msg = "Could not convert nan with type float"
+        with pytest.raises(err, match=msg):
+            arr[indexer] = np.nan
+        assert arr[1] == 1
+    else:
+        arr[indexer] = np.nan
+        assert arr[1] is pd.NA

pandas/tests/frame/methods/test_replace.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
+import pandas.util._test_decorators as td
+
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
     DataFrame,
@@ -1430,6 +1432,49 @@ def test_replace_with_nil_na(self):
         result = ser.replace("nil", "anything else")
         tm.assert_frame_equal(expected, result)
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "dtype",
+        [
+            "Float64",
+            pytest.param("float64[pyarrow]", marks=td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_replace_na_to_nan_nullable_floats(self, dtype, using_nan_is_na):
+        # GH#55127
+        df = DataFrame({0: [1, np.nan, 1], 1: Series([0, pd.NA, 1], dtype=dtype)})
+
+        result = df.replace(pd.NA, np.nan)
+
+        if using_nan_is_na:
+            expected = result
+        else:
+            expected = DataFrame(
+                {0: [1, np.nan, 1], 1: Series([0, np.nan, 1], dtype=dtype)}
+            )
+            assert np.isnan(expected.loc[1, 1])
+
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "dtype",
+        [
+            "Int64",
+            pytest.param("int64[pyarrow]", marks=td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_replace_nan_nullable_ints(self, dtype, using_nan_is_na):
+        # GH#51237 with nan_is_na=False, replacing NaN should be a no-op here
+        ser = Series([1, 2, None], dtype=dtype)
+
+        result = ser.replace(np.nan, -1)
+
+        if using_nan_is_na:
+            # np.nan is equivalent to pd.NA here
+            expected = Series([1, 2, -1], dtype=dtype)
+        else:
+            expected = ser
+        tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
 
 class TestDataFrameReplaceRegex:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(

pandas/tests/series/methods/test_convert_dtypes.py

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ def test_convert_dtypes(
             with pytest.raises(TypeError, match="Invalid value"):
                 result[result.notna()] = np.nan
         else:
-            result[result.notna()] = np.nan
+            result[result.notna()] = pd.NA
 
         # Make sure original not changed
         tm.assert_series_equal(series, copy)