BUG: adding numpy errstate to dataframe/series broadcasting (GH16378)

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.2.txt

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Conversion
 ^^^^^^^^^^
 
 - Bug in ``pd.to_numeric()`` in which empty data inputs were causing Python to crash (:issue:`16302`)
+- Silence numpy warnings when broadcasting DataFrame to Series with comparison ops (:issue:`16378`, :issue:`16306`)
 
 
 Indexing

pandas/core/ops.py

@@ -1250,7 +1250,8 @@ def _flex_comp_method_FRAME(op, name, str_rep=None, default_axis='columns',
                             masker=False):
     def na_op(x, y):
         try:
-            result = op(x, y)
+            with np.errstate(invalid='ignore'):
+                result = op(x, y)
         except TypeError:
             xrav = x.ravel()
             result = np.empty(x.size, dtype=bool)

pandas/tests/frame/test_analytics.py

@@ -2073,3 +2073,16 @@ def test_n_duplicate_index(self, df_duplicates, n, order):
         result = df.nlargest(n, order)
         expected = df.sort_values(order, ascending=False).head(n)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+    def test_series_broadcasting(self):
+        # smoke test for numpy warnings
+        # GH 16378, GH 16306
+        df = DataFrame([1.0, 1.0, 1.0])
+        df_nan = DataFrame({'A': [np.nan, 2.0, np.nan]})
+        s = Series([1, 1, 1])
+        s_nan = Series([np.nan, np.nan, 1])
+
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(None):
+            df_nan.clip_lower(s, axis=0)
+            for op in ['lt', 'le', 'gt', 'ge', 'eq', 'ne']:
+                getattr(df, op)(s_nan, axis=0)