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What's new in 1.2.0 (??)

These are the changes in pandas 1.2.0. See :ref:`release` for a full changelog including other versions of pandas.

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Enhancements

Optionally disallow duplicate labels

:class:`Series` and :class:`DataFrame` can now be created with allows_duplicate_labels=False flag to control whether the index or columns can contain duplicate labels (:issue:`28394`). This can be used to prevent accidental introduction of duplicate labels, which can affect downstream operations.

By default, duplicates continue to be allowed

.. ipython:: python

   pd.Series([1, 2], index=['a', 'a'])


.. ipython:: python
   :okexcept:

   pd.Series([1, 2], index=['a', 'a']).set_flags(allows_duplicate_labels=False)

Pandas will propagate the allows_duplicate_labels property through many operations.

.. ipython:: python
   :okexcept:

   a = (
       pd.Series([1, 2], index=['a', 'b'])
         .set_flags(allows_duplicate_labels=False)
   )
   a
   # An operation introducing duplicates
   a.reindex(['a', 'b', 'a'])

Warning

This is an experimental feature. Currently, many methods fail to propagate the allows_duplicate_labels value. In future versions it is expected that every method taking or returning one or more DataFrame or Series objects will propagate allows_duplicate_labels.

See :ref:`duplicates` for more.

The allows_duplicate_labels flag is stored in the new :attr:`DataFrame.flags` attribute. This stores global attributes that apply to the pandas object. This differs from :attr:`DataFrame.attrs`, which stores information that applies to the dataset.

Passing arguments to fsspec backends

Many read/write functions have acquired the storage_options optional argument, to pass a dictionary of parameters to the storage backend. This allows, for example, for passing credentials to S3 and GCS storage. The details of what parameters can be passed to which backends can be found in the documentation of the individual storage backends (detailed from the fsspec docs for builtin implementations and linked to external ones). See Section :ref:`io.remote`.

:issue:`35655` added fsspec support (including storage_options) for reading excel files.

Support for binary file handles in to_csv

:meth:`to_csv` supports file handles in binary mode (:issue:`19827` and :issue:`35058`) with encoding (:issue:`13068` and :issue:`23854`) and compression (:issue:`22555`). mode has to contain a b for binary handles to be supported.

For example:

.. ipython:: python

   import io

   data = pd.DataFrame([0, 1, 2])
   buffer = io.BytesIO()
   data.to_csv(buffer, mode="w+b", encoding="utf-8", compression="gzip")

Other enhancements

Increased minimum version for Python

Pandas 1.2.0 supports Python 3.7.1 and higher (:issue:`35214`).

Increased minimum versions for dependencies

Some minimum supported versions of dependencies were updated (:issue:`35214`). If installed, we now require:

Package Minimum Version Required Changed
numpy 1.16.5 X X
pytz 2017.3 X X
python-dateutil 2.7.3 X  
bottleneck 1.2.1    
numexpr 2.6.8   X
pytest (dev) 5.0.1   X
mypy (dev) 0.782   X

For optional libraries the general recommendation is to use the latest version. The following table lists the lowest version per library that is currently being tested throughout the development of pandas. Optional libraries below the lowest tested version may still work, but are not considered supported.

Package Minimum Version Changed
beautifulsoup4 4.6.0  
fastparquet 0.3.2  
fsspec 0.7.4  
gcsfs 0.6.0  
lxml 4.3.0 X
matplotlib 2.2.3 X
numba 0.46.0  
openpyxl 2.6.0 X
pyarrow 0.15.0 X
pymysql 0.7.11 X
pytables 3.4.4 X
s3fs 0.4.0  
scipy 1.2.0  
sqlalchemy 1.2.8 X
xarray 0.12.0 X
xlrd 1.2.0 X
xlsxwriter 1.0.2 X
xlwt 1.3.0 X
pandas-gbq 0.12.0  

See :ref:`install.dependencies` and :ref:`install.optional_dependencies` for more.

Deprecations

Performance improvements

Bug fixes

Categorical

Datetimelike

Timedelta

Timezones

Numeric

Conversion

Strings

Interval

Indexing

Missing

MultiIndex

I/O

Plotting

Groupby/resample/rolling

Reshaping

Sparse

ExtensionArray

Other

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