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Description
Code
>>> pd.DataFrame(pd.DataFrame())
Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: []
>>> pd.DataFrame([], dtype='object')
Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: []
>>> pd.DataFrame(pd.DataFrame(), dtype='object')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-62-36914d1cfa60>", line 1, in <module>
pd.DataFrame(pd.DataFrame(), dtype='object')
File "c:\users\hans\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 328, in __init__
dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
File "c:\users\hans\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\generic.py", line 175, in _init_mgr
if len(mgr.blocks) > 1 or mgr.blocks[0].values.dtype != dtype:
IndexError: tuple index out of rangeProblem description
Initializing a DataFrame from an empty DataFrame with dtype='object' throws an unexpected exception.
Expected Output
Would expect an empty DataFrame to be created.
#### Output of ``pd.show_versions()``
commit: None
python: 3.6.3.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 10
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en
LOCALE: None.None
pandas: 0.21.1
pytest: 3.5.0
pip: 9.0.3
setuptools: 38.5.2
Cython: None
numpy: 1.13.3
scipy: 1.0.0
pyarrow: None
xarray: None
IPython: 6.2.1
sphinx: 1.7.1
patsy: None
dateutil: 2.7.0
pytz: 2018.3
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: None
numexpr: None
feather: None
matplotlib: 2.1.1
openpyxl: None
xlrd: None
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: 1.0.1
sqlalchemy: None
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.10
s3fs: None
fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None