Description
Pandas version checks
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I have confirmed this bug exists on the latest version of pandas.
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I have confirmed this bug exists on the main branch of pandas.
Reproducible Example
import pandas as pd
print(pd.__version__)
df = pd.DataFrame(data=[], columns=['col_1', 'col_2', 'col_3', 'col_4']).set_index(['col_1', 'col_2'])
res = df.groupby(['col_1']).fillna('')
print(res.index.names)
df = pd.DataFrame([['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']], columns=['col_1', 'col_2', 'col_3', 'col_4']).set_index(['col_1', 'col_2'])
res = df.groupby(['col_1']).fillna('')
print(res.index.names)Issue Description
When doing a group by / fillna on a key belonging to a row index, the schema should be identical before and after. When the dataframe is empty, the non group key of the index is lost (col_2 in the example above).
This seems somewhat similar to #47672 but takes a different code path.
I will have a look at making a PR
Expected Behavior
The schema before and after a groupby / fillna should be identical.
Installed Versions
pandas : 1.4.3
numpy : 1.22.4
pytz : 2022.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 63.2.0
pip : 22.1.2
Cython : 0.29.30
pytest : 7.1.2
hypothesis : 6.47.1
sphinx : 4.5.0
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 3.0.3
lxml.etree : 4.9.1
html5lib : 1.1
pymysql : 1.0.2
psycopg2 : 2.9.3
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.4.0
pandas_datareader: 0.10.0
bs4 : 4.11.1
bottleneck : 1.3.5
brotli :
fastparquet : 0.8.1
fsspec : 2021.11.0
gcsfs : 2021.11.0
markupsafe : 2.1.1
matplotlib : 3.5.2
numba : 0.55.2
numexpr : 2.8.3
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.0.9
pandas_gbq : 0.17.6
pyarrow : 8.0.0
pyreadstat : 1.1.9
pyxlsb : 1.0.9
s3fs : 2021.11.0
scipy : 1.8.1
snappy :
sqlalchemy : 1.4.39
tables : 3.7.0
tabulate : 0.8.10
xarray : 2022.3.0
xlrd : 2.0.1
xlwt : 1.3.0
zstandard : 0.18.0