BUG: Return Float64 for read_parquet(use_nullable_dtypes=True) (pandas-dev#47619)

Author: mroeschke

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.5.0.rst

@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :func:`read_sas` with RLE-compressed SAS7BDAT files that contain 0x40 control bytes (:issue:`31243`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_sas` that scrambled column names (:issue:`31243`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_sas` with RLE-compressed SAS7BDAT files that contain 0x00 control bytes (:issue:`47099`)
--
+- Bug in :func:`read_parquet` with ``use_nullable_dtypes=True`` where ``float64`` dtype was returned instead of nullable ``Float64`` dtype (:issue:`45694`)
 
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pandas/io/parquet.py

@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ def read(
                 self.api.uint64(): pd.UInt64Dtype(),
                 self.api.bool_(): pd.BooleanDtype(),
                 self.api.string(): pd.StringDtype(),
+                self.api.float32(): pd.Float32Dtype(),
+                self.api.float64(): pd.Float64Dtype(),
             }
             to_pandas_kwargs["types_mapper"] = mapping.get
         manager = get_option("mode.data_manager")

pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py

@@ -626,6 +626,9 @@ def test_use_nullable_dtypes(self, engine, request):
                 "d": pyarrow.array([True, False, True, None]),
                 # Test that nullable dtypes used even in absence of nulls
                 "e": pyarrow.array([1, 2, 3, 4], "int64"),
+                # GH 45694
+                "f": pyarrow.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, None], "float32"),
+                "g": pyarrow.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, None], "float64"),
             }
         )
         with tm.ensure_clean() as path:
@@ -642,6 +645,8 @@ def test_use_nullable_dtypes(self, engine, request):
                 "c": pd.array(["a", "b", "c", None], dtype="string"),
                 "d": pd.array([True, False, True, None], dtype="boolean"),
                 "e": pd.array([1, 2, 3, 4], dtype="Int64"),
+                "f": pd.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, None], dtype="Float32"),
+                "g": pd.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, None], dtype="Float64"),
             }
         )
         if engine == "fastparquet":
@@ -672,7 +677,17 @@ def test_read_empty_array(self, pa, dtype):
                 "value": pd.array([], dtype=dtype),
             }
         )
-        check_round_trip(df, pa, read_kwargs={"use_nullable_dtypes": True})
+        # GH 45694
+        expected = None
+        if dtype == "float":
+            expected = pd.DataFrame(
+                {
+                    "value": pd.array([], dtype="Float64"),
+                }
+            )
+        check_round_trip(
+            df, pa, read_kwargs={"use_nullable_dtypes": True}, expected=expected
+        )
 
 
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:CategoricalBlock is deprecated:DeprecationWarning")