iloc with empty list raises IndexError

[dbew]

When you slice a dataframe with an empty list you get an IndexError instead of an empty dataframe. Slicing with a non-empty list works fine. Tested in pandas 0.13.1. This is a regression from pandas 0.11.0.

df = pd.DataFrame(np.arange(25.0).reshape((5,5)), columns=list('abcde'))

Slice with non-empty list.

[5 rows x 5 columns]
df.iloc[[1,2,3]]
Out[34]: 
    a   b   c   d   e
1   5   6   7   8   9
2  10  11  12  13  14
3  15  16  17  18  19

[3 rows x 5 columns]

Slice with empty list.

df.iloc[[]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipython-1.1.0_1_ahl1-py2.7.egg/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 2830, in run_code
    exec code_obj in self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns
  File "<ipython-input-35-8806137779f8>", line 1, in <module>
    df.iloc[[]]
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/indexing.py", line 1028, in __getitem__
    return self._getitem_axis(key, axis=0)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/indexing.py", line 1238, in _getitem_axis
    return self._get_loc(key, axis=axis)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/indexing.py", line 73, in _get_loc
    return self.obj._ixs(key, axis=axis)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/frame.py", line 1588, in _ixs
    result = self.reindex(i, takeable=True)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/frame.py", line 2162, in reindex
    **kwargs)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/generic.py", line 1565, in reindex
    takeable=takeable).__finalize__(self)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/frame.py", line 2117, in _reindex_axes
    fill_value, limit, takeable=takeable)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/frame.py", line 2126, in _reindex_index
    takeable=takeable)
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/index.py", line 1233, in reindex
    return self[target], target
  File "/users/is/dbew/pyenvs/timeseries/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas-0.13.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/pandas/core/index.py", line 624, in __getitem__
    result = arr_idx[key]
IndexError: arrays used as indices must be of integer (or boolean) type

[dbew]

Forgot to say, this works fine with .ix.

[jreback]

thanks...this is a bug