BUG: pandas.cut and negative values

[luca-s]

Here is an example of pandas.cut ran on a pandas.Series with only one positive element and then on a pandas.Series with only one negative element. In the second scenario pandas.cut is not able to insert the single value on the only one bin.

I might be wrong but I expected pandas.cut to behave on negative values the same as with positive
values.

A small, complete example of the issue

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

>>> s = pd.Series([1.])
>>> pd.cut(s, 1)
0    (0.999, 1.001]
dtype: category
Categories (1, object): [(0.999, 1.001]]

>>> s = pd.Series([-1.])
>>> pd.cut(s, 1)
0    NaN
dtype: category
Categories (1, object): [(-0.999, -1.001]]

Expected Output

>>> s = pd.Series([-1.])
>>> pd.cut(s, 1)

0    (-1.001, -0.999]
dtype: category
Categories (1, object): [(-1.001, -0.999]]

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: None python: 3.4.3.final.0 python-bits: 64 OS: Linux OS-release: 4.4.0-45-generic machine: x86_64 processor: x86_64 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.18.1
nose: 1.3.1
pip: 1.5.4
setuptools: 28.0.0
Cython: 0.20.1post0
numpy: 1.11.1
scipy: 0.18.0
statsmodels: 0.6.1
xarray: None
IPython: 5.1.0
sphinx: 1.4.8
patsy: 0.4.1
dateutil: 2.5.3
pytz: 2016.6.1
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: None
numexpr: None
matplotlib: 1.5.1
openpyxl: None
xlrd: None
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: 0.999
httplib2: 0.8
apiclient: None
sqlalchemy: 1.0.14
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.8
boto: None
pandas_datareader: 0.2.1

[jreback]

hmm, that does look wrong.

welcome for you to have a look!

[luca-s]

Ok, I had a look and the problem is probably in here, the code should be:
mn -= .001 * abs(mn)
and also here, the code should be:
mx += .001 * abs(mx)

Should I submit a PR? I am not familiar with Pandas development

[jreback]

@luca-s perfect. if you'd like to do a PR would be great.