datawrangler.zoo.null

datawrangler.zoo.null.is_null(data)

Test whether an object is None or empty.

Parameters

data – the to-be-tested object

Returns

True if the object is None or empty and False otherwise.

datawrangler.zoo.null.wrangle_null(data, return_model=False, model=<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>)

Turn a null object (None or empty) into an empty DataFrame.

Parameters

• data – the to-be-wrangled null object

• return_model – if True, return a model (and its arguments and keyword arguments) for turning the null object into a DataFrame.

• model –

  a function or constructor that will generate an empty DataFrame. This can also be specified as a dictionary with the following fields:

  • ’model’: a function or constructor

  • ’args’: a list of unnamed arguments to be passed to the given function or constructor

  • ’kwargs’: a dictionary of named arguments to be passed to the given function or constructor

Returns

an empty DataFrame