pandas.Series.apply fails with IndexError with an empty series

[lesteve]

import pandas as pd
s = pd.Series()
s.apply(lambda x: x)

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IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-a33a9027c226> in <module>()
----> 1 s.apply(lambda x: x)

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/core/series.pyc in apply(self, func, convert_dtype, args, **kwds)
   2295 
   2296         mapped = lib.map_infer(values, f, convert=convert_dtype)
-> 2297         if isinstance(mapped[0], Series):
   2298             from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
   2299             return DataFrame(mapped.tolist(), index=self.index)

IndexError: index out of bounds

This happens since 0.10.0 because of the new feature which upcasts the returned object to a dataframe if the function passed as the func argument returns a Series.

[changhiskhan]

Returns new empty Series if self has len 0