Pandas missing values: Why assigning pd.NA gives you float64

Assign either np.nan or pd.NA to a Python Pandas series with a NumPy dtype, and it’ll be np.nan, a float.

Which means the entire series has a dtype of float:

s = Series([10, 20, 30, 40])
s.loc[2] = pd.NA

Result:

0 10.0
1 20.0
2 NaN
3 40.0
dtype: float64