CLN GH22985 Fixed interpolation with object error message

Author: Pamela Wu

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -6387,7 +6387,9 @@ def interpolate(self, method='linear', axis=0, limit=None, inplace=False,
 
         if _maybe_transposed_self._data.get_dtype_counts().get(
                 'object') == len(_maybe_transposed_self.T):
-            raise TypeError("Cannot interpolate with all NaNs.")
+            raise TypeError("Cannot interpolate with all object-dtype columns "
+                            "in the DataFrame. Try setting at least one "
+                            "column to a numeric dtype.")
 
         # create/use the index
         if method == 'linear':

pandas/tests/frame/test_missing.py

@@ -814,6 +814,18 @@ def test_interp_raise_on_only_mixed(self):
         with pytest.raises(TypeError):
             df.interpolate(axis=1)
 
+    def test_interp_raise_on_all_object_dtype(self):
+        df = DataFrame({
+            'A': [1, 2, 3],
+            'B': [4, 5, 6]},
+            dtype='object')
+        with tm.assert_raises_regex(
+                TypeError,
+                "Cannot interpolate with all object-dtype columns "
+                "in the DataFrame. Try setting at least one "
+                "column to a numeric dtype."):
+            df.interpolate()
+
     def test_interp_inplace(self):
         df = DataFrame({'a': [1., 2., np.nan, 4.]})
         expected = DataFrame({'a': [1., 2., 3., 4.]})