whatsnew

Author: arw2019

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst

@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ Numeric
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.std` with ``timedelta64`` dtype and ``skipna=False`` (:issue:`37392`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.min` and :meth:`DataFrame.max` with ``datetime64`` dtype and ``skipna=False`` (:issue:`36907`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.idxmax` and :meth:`DataFrame.idxmin` with mixed dtypes incorrectly raising ``TypeError`` (:issue:`38195`)
+- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.select_dtypes` with ``include=np.number`` now retains numeric ``ExtensionDtype`` columns (:issue:`35340`)
 
 Conversion
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