DEPR: deprecate include/exclude on Series.describe (GH-54193)#65592
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The include and exclude arguments are advertised in the Series.describe signature but have always been silently ignored. Emit Pandas4Warning so users find this out at call time instead of via the Notes section. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Series.describe(include=..., exclude=...)has always silently ignored those arguments. The docstring buries this in Notes — easy to miss, and a recent numpy change (banningquantileon complex) turned the silent ignore into a confusingTypeErrorfor the BUG: pd.Series.describe ignores include, exclude arguments #54193 reporter.Pandas4Warningwhen either argument is passed to a Series, so users find the issue at call time instead of by reading the Notes section. Behavior is otherwise unchanged.SeriesGroupBy.describe/GroupBy.describedocstrings since the same dispatch path goes throughdescribe_ndframe.closes #54193
Test plan
test_describe_include_exclude_deprecatedcoversinclude=[...],exclude=[...],include="all", and combined kwargs.test_groupby_empty_datasetto wrap theSeriesGroupBy.describe(**kwargs)calls withtm.assert_produces_warning(Pandas4Warning, ...)since all three parametrized kwargs sets now warn.pandas/tests/series/methods/test_describe.py,pandas/tests/frame/methods/test_describe.py,pandas/tests/groupby/methods/test_describe.py.🤖 Generated with Claude Code