Mixed type DataFrame.diff converts to object

[changhiskhan]

In [68]: df = DataFrame(np.random.randn(5, 3))

In [69]: df
Out[69]:
          0         1         2
0 -1.102224  0.395433 -0.112327
1 -0.025758  2.810779 -0.823856
2  1.100939  0.741825  1.016203
3  0.452166 -1.914473  1.439475
4  0.030840 -0.690666 -0.346612

In [70]: df.diff().dtypes
Out[70]:
0    float64
1    float64
2    float64

In [71]: df['A'] = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], dtype=object)

In [72]: df.dtypes
Out[72]:
0    float64
1    float64
2    float64
A     object

In [73]: df.diff().dtypes
Out[73]:
0    object
1    object
2    object
A    object