How to fill dataframe Nan values with empty list [] in pandas?

Question

This is my dataframe:

          date                          ids
0     2011-04-23  [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,...
1     2011-04-24  [0,         


        

Answer 1

Create a function that checks your condition, if not, it returns an empty list/empty set etc.

Then apply that function to the variable, but also assigning the new calculated variable to the old one or to a new variable if you wish.

aa=pd.DataFrame({'d':[1,1,2,3,3,np.NaN],'r':[3,5,5,5,5,'e']})


def check_condition(x):
    if x>0:
        return x
    else:
        return list()

aa['d]=aa.d.apply(lambda x:check_condition(x))