Pandas: Drop the rows where all elements are missing

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7. Drop Rows with All Missing Values

Write a Pandas program to drop the rows where all elements are missing in a given DataFrame.

Test Data:

     ord_no  purch_amt    ord_date  customer_id
0       NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN
1       NaN     270.65  2012-09-10       3001.0
2   70002.0      65.26         NaN       3001.0
3   70004.0     110.50  2012-08-17       3003.0
4       NaN     948.50  2012-09-10       3002.0
5   70005.0    2400.60  2012-07-27       3001.0
6       NaN    5760.00  2012-09-10       3001.0
7   70010.0    1983.43  2012-10-10       3004.0
8   70003.0    2480.40  2012-10-10       3003.0
9   70012.0     250.45  2012-06-27       3002.0
10      NaN      75.29  2012-08-17       3001.0
11  70013.0    3045.60  2012-04-25       3001.0

Sample Solution:

Python Code :

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
pd.set_option('display.max_rows', None)
#pd.set_option('display.max_columns', None)
df = pd.DataFrame({
'ord_no':[np.nan,np.nan,70002,70004,np.nan,70005,np.nan,70010,70003,70012,np.nan,70013],
'purch_amt':[np.nan,270.65,65.26,110.5,948.5,2400.6,5760,1983.43,2480.4,250.45, 75.29,3045.6],
'ord_date': [np.nan,'2012-09-10',np.nan,'2012-08-17','2012-09-10','2012-07-27','2012-09-10','2012-10-10','2012-10-10','2012-06-27','2012-08-17','2012-04-25'],
'customer_id':[np.nan,3001,3001,3003,3002,3001,3001,3004,3003,3002,3001,3001]})

print("Original Orders DataFrame:")
print(df)
print("\nDrop the rows where all elements are missing:")
result = df.dropna(how='all')
print(result)

Sample Output:

Original Orders DataFrame:
     ord_no  purch_amt    ord_date  customer_id
0       NaN        NaN         NaN          NaN
1       NaN     270.65  2012-09-10       3001.0
2   70002.0      65.26         NaN       3001.0
3   70004.0     110.50  2012-08-17       3003.0
4       NaN     948.50  2012-09-10       3002.0
5   70005.0    2400.60  2012-07-27       3001.0
6       NaN    5760.00  2012-09-10       3001.0
7   70010.0    1983.43  2012-10-10       3004.0
8   70003.0    2480.40  2012-10-10       3003.0
9   70012.0     250.45  2012-06-27       3002.0
10      NaN      75.29  2012-08-17       3001.0
11  70013.0    3045.60  2012-04-25       3001.0

Drop the rows where all elements are missing:
     ord_no  purch_amt    ord_date  customer_id
1       NaN     270.65  2012-09-10       3001.0
2   70002.0      65.26         NaN       3001.0
3   70004.0     110.50  2012-08-17       3003.0
4       NaN     948.50  2012-09-10       3002.0
5   70005.0    2400.60  2012-07-27       3001.0
6       NaN    5760.00  2012-09-10       3001.0
7   70010.0    1983.43  2012-10-10       3004.0
8   70003.0    2480.40  2012-10-10       3003.0
9   70012.0     250.45  2012-06-27       3002.0
10      NaN      75.29  2012-08-17       3001.0
11  70013.0    3045.60  2012-04-25       3001.0

For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:

Write a Pandas program to remove rows from a DataFrame where every element is missing using dropna(how='all').
Write a Pandas program to filter out rows that are completely empty and then verify the row count.
Write a Pandas program to drop rows that consist solely of NaN values and output the resulting DataFrame.
Write a Pandas program to identify and remove fully empty rows from a DataFrame with dropna() using the 'all' parameter.

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