BUG: Change Panel.shift to use slice_shift pandas-dev#6605 pandas-dev#6826

TST: Make sure Panel.shift retains dtypes

DOC: removed previous doc entries for pandas-dev#6605

Re-add note about dropping shifted periods

DOC: added note about bug fix

don't pass on freq

Author: dalejung

doc/source/release.rst

@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ API Changes
   to a non-unique item in the ``Index`` (previously raised a ``KeyError``). (:issue:`6738`)
 - all offset operations now return ``Timestamp`` types (rather than datetime), Business/Week frequencies were incorrect (:issue:`4069`)
 - ``Series.iteritems()`` is now lazy (returns an iterator rather than a list). This was the documented behavior prior to 0.14. (:issue:`6760`)
-- ``Panel.shift`` now uses ``NDFrame.shift``. It no longer drops the ``nan`` data and retains its original shape.  (:issue:`4867`)
 - ``to_excel`` now converts ``np.inf`` into a string representation,
   customizable by the ``inf_rep`` keyword argument (Excel has no native inf
   representation) (:issue:`6782`)
@@ -424,6 +423,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.apply`` with functions that used *args or **kwargs and returned
   an empty result (:issue:`6952`)
 - Bug in sum/mean on 32-bit platforms on overflows (:issue:`6915`)
+- Moved ``Panel.shift`` to ``NDFrame.slice_shift`` and fixed to respect multiple dtypes. (:issue:`6959`)
 
 pandas 0.13.1
 -------------

doc/source/v0.14.0.txt

@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ API changes
     covs[df.index[-1]]
 
 - ``Series.iteritems()`` is now lazy (returns an iterator rather than a list). This was the documented behavior prior to 0.14. (:issue:`6760`)
-- ``Panel.shift`` now uses ``NDFrame.shift``. It no longer drops the ``nan`` data and retains its original shape.  (:issue:`4867`)
 
 - Added ``nunique`` and ``value_counts`` functions to ``Index`` for counting unique elements. (:issue:`6734`)
 - ``stack`` and ``unstack`` now raise a ``ValueError`` when the ``level`` keyword refers

pandas/core/panel.py

@@ -1154,7 +1154,8 @@ def count(self, axis='major'):
     @deprecate_kwarg(old_arg_name='lags', new_arg_name='periods')
     def shift(self, periods=1, freq=None, axis='major'):
         """
-        Shift major or minor axis by specified number of leads/lags.
+        Shift major or minor axis by specified number of leads/lags. Drops
+        periods right now compared with DataFrame.shift
 
         Parameters
         ----------
@@ -1171,7 +1172,7 @@ def shift(self, periods=1, freq=None, axis='major'):
         if axis == 'items':
             raise ValueError('Invalid axis')
 
-        return super(Panel, self).shift(periods, freq=freq, axis=axis)
+        return super(Panel, self).slice_shift(periods, axis=axis)
 
     def tshift(self, periods=1, freq=None, axis='major', **kwds):
         return super(Panel, self).tshift(periods, freq, axis, **kwds)

pandas/tests/test_panel.py

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
                                  assert_almost_equal,
                                  ensure_clean,
                                  assertRaisesRegexp,
-                                 makeCustomDataframe as mkdf
+                                 makeCustomDataframe as mkdf,
+                                 makeMixedDataFrame
     )
 import pandas.core.panel as panelm
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
@@ -1652,10 +1653,17 @@ def test_shift(self):
 
         # negative numbers, #2164
         result = self.panel.shift(-1)
-        expected = Panel(dict((i, f.shift(-1))
+        expected = Panel(dict((i, f.shift(-1)[:-1])
                               for i, f in compat.iteritems(self.panel)))
         assert_panel_equal(result, expected)
 
+        # mixed dtypes #6959
+        data = [('item '+ch, makeMixedDataFrame()) for ch in list('abcde')]
+        data = dict(data)
+        mixed_panel = Panel.from_dict(data, orient='minor')
+        shifted = mixed_panel.shift(1)
+        assert_series_equal(mixed_panel.dtypes, shifted.dtypes)
+
     def test_tshift(self):
         # PeriodIndex
         ps = tm.makePeriodPanel()