How to resample a TimeSeries in pandas with a fill_value?

Question

I have a TimeSeries of integers that I would like to downsample using resample(). The problem is that I have some periods with missing data that are converted to NaN. Since pandas does not support Integer NA values the integers are converted to floats.

Is it possible to resample a TimeSeries using a fill_value for missing data like I can with reindex(fill_value=0)? I don't want my integers cast into floats.

>>> dates = (datetime(2013, 1, 1), datetime(2013,1,2), datetime(2013,3,1))
>>> s = Series([1,2,4],index=dates)
>>> s
2013-01-01    1
2013-01-02    2
2013-03-01    4
dtype: int64
>>> s.resample('M', how='sum')
2013-01-31     3
2013-02-28   NaN
2013-03-31     4
Freq: M, dtype: float64

# Desired output (doesn't work)
>>> s.resample('M', how='sum', fill_value=0)
2013-01-31     3
2013-02-28     0
2013-03-31     4
Freq: M, dtype: int64

Answer 1

You can define your own function to avoid NaN

In [36]: def _sum(x):
   ....:     if len(x) == 0: return 0
   ....:     else: return sum(x)
   ....:     

In [37]: s.resample('M', how=_sum)
Out[37]: 
2013-01-31    3   
2013-02-28    0   
2013-03-31    3   
Freq: M, dtype: int64