BUG: .fillna(-1) does not work in pd.eval

[Demetrio92]

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
def test_unary(val):
    df = pd.DataFrame({'x': np.array([0.11, 0], dtype=np.float32)})
    res = df.eval(f'x=x.fillna({val})')
test_unary(1)  # works
test_unary(-1)  # fails

Issue Description

.eval seems to be having some problems with negative values. A very similar issue has been reported, summarized and closed here: #16363

However, it clearly still persists in other instances.

Expected Behavior

test_unary(-1) # works

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 66e3805
python : 3.9.10.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.13.0-35-generic
Version : #40~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 7 09:18:32 UTC 2022
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8
pandas : 1.3.5
numpy : 1.21.2
pytz : 2021.3
dateutil : 2.8.2
pip : 21.3.1
setuptools : 58.2.0
Cython : None
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.0.2
IPython : 7.28.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : None
bottleneck : None
fsspec : 2021.11.1
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.4.3
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 5.0.0
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : 2021.11.1
scipy : 1.7.1
sqlalchemy : 1.4.25
tables : None
tabulate : 0.8.9
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
numba : 0.55.0

[rhshadrach]

Thanks for the report! Further investigations and PRs to fix are most welcome.

[Saxeman]

take

[shyamsantoki]

take

[PierXuY]

It can be implemented in the following ways:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame([np.nan,1,1], columns=['A'])
result = df.eval('A.fillna(@negative(1))',local_dict={'negative':lambda x:-x})