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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
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Expand Up @@ -866,3 +866,4 @@ Bug Fixes
- Bug in plotting functions may raise ``IndexError`` when plotted on ``GridSpec`` (:issue:`10819`)
- Bug in plot result may show unnecessary minor ticklabels (:issue:`10657`)
- Bug when constructing ``DataFrame`` where passing a dictionary with only scalar values and specifying columns did not raise an error (:issue:`10856`)
- Bug when constructing ``DataFrame`` with an array of complex64 dtype that meant the corresponding column was automatically promoted to the complex128 dtype (:issue:`10952`)
3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions pandas/core/internals.py
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Expand Up @@ -3657,8 +3657,7 @@ def form_blocks(arrays, names, axes):
blocks.extend(float_blocks)

if len(complex_items):
complex_blocks = _simple_blockify(
complex_items, np.complex128)
complex_blocks = _multi_blockify(complex_items)
blocks.extend(complex_blocks)

if len(int_items):
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions pandas/tests/test_frame.py
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Expand Up @@ -2668,6 +2668,15 @@ def _check_mixed_dtypes(df, dtypes = None):
df = _make_mixed_dtypes_df('int')
_check_mixed_dtypes(df)

def test_constructor_complex_dtypes(self):
# GH10952
a = np.random.rand(10).astype(np.complex64)
b = np.random.rand(10).astype(np.complex128)

df = DataFrame({'a': a, 'b': b})
self.assertEqual(a.dtype, df.a.dtype)
self.assertEqual(b.dtype, df.b.dtype)

def test_constructor_rec(self):
rec = self.frame.to_records(index=False)

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