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Concatenating unordered CategoricalIndex overrides indices #24845

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HagaiHargil opened this issue Jan 20, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #47841
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Concatenating unordered CategoricalIndex overrides indices #24845

HagaiHargil opened this issue Jan 20, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #47841
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@HagaiHargil
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A very similar bug to #20425, but with CategoricalIndex instead of Categorical:

Code Sample

cat1 = pd.CategoricalIndex(
    ["a", "a",],
    categories=["a", "b"],
    ordered=False)
cat2 = pd.CategoricalIndex(
    ["b", "b"],
    categories=["b", "a"],
    ordered=False)

df1 = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2]}, index=cat1)
df2 = pd.DataFrame({"A": [3, 4]}, index=cat2)
print(pd.concat((df1, df2)))  # cat2 disappeared from index
#    A
# a  1
# a  2
# a  3
# a  4

Problem description

When the indices are unordered, a concatenation operation may yield wrong indices for the resulting DataFrame. If cat2's categories were ["a", "b"] the concatenation operation would've been successful.

Expected Output

cat3 = pd.CategoricalIndex(
    ["a", "a", "b", "b"], 
    categories=["a", "b"], 
    ordered=False)
print(pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 2, 3, 4]}, index=cat3))
#    A
# a  1
# a  2
# b  3
# b  4

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None
python: 3.6.7.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 4.18.0-13-generic
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.23.4
pytest: 3.8.1
pip: 18.1
setuptools: 40.2.0
Cython: 0.28.5
numpy: 1.15.4
scipy: 1.2.0
pyarrow: None
xarray: 0.11.0
IPython: 7.0.1
sphinx: 1.8.1
patsy: 0.5.1
dateutil: 2.7.3
pytz: 2018.5
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: 3.4.4
numexpr: 2.6.8
feather: None
matplotlib: 3.0.1
openpyxl: None
xlrd: None
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: 1.0.1
sqlalchemy: None
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.10
s3fs: None
fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None

@TomAugspurger TomAugspurger added Reshaping Concat, Merge/Join, Stack/Unstack, Explode Categorical Categorical Data Type Difficulty Intermediate labels Jan 20, 2019
@TomAugspurger TomAugspurger added this to the Contributions Welcome milestone Jan 20, 2019
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Is someone working on this issue? If not I would like to look into this.

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… overrides index (#47841)

BUG: fix bug where appending unordered ``CategoricalIndex`` variables overrides index (#24845)
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BUG: fix bug where appending unordered ``CategoricalIndex`` variables overrides index (pandas-dev#24845)
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BUG: fix bug where appending unordered ``CategoricalIndex`` variables overrides index (pandas-dev#24845)
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