BUG: fix str.contains for series containing only nan values

Author: josh-howes

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt

@@ -1567,3 +1567,4 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``eval()`` where the ``resolvers`` argument would not accept a list (:issue:`14095`)
 - Bugs in ``stack``, ``get_dummies``, ``make_axis_dummies`` which don't preserve categorical dtypes in (multi)indexes (:issue:`13854`)
 - ``PeridIndex`` can now accept ``list`` and ``array`` which contains ``pd.NaT`` (:issue:`13430`)
+- Bug in ``str.contains()`` for series containing only nan values (:issue:`14171`)

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt

@@ -81,3 +81,4 @@ Performance Improvements
 
 Bug Fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
+

pandas/core/strings.py

@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ def _map(f, arr, na_mask=False, na_value=np.nan, dtype=object):
     if na_mask:
         mask = isnull(arr)
         try:
-            result = lib.map_infer_mask(arr, f, mask.view(np.uint8))
+            convert = not all(mask)
+            result = lib.map_infer_mask(arr, f, mask.view(np.uint8), convert)
         except (TypeError, AttributeError):
 
             def g(x):

pandas/tests/test_strings.py

@@ -2439,6 +2439,26 @@ def test_more_contains(self):
                            True, False, False])
         assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
+    def test_contains_nan(self):
+        # PR #14171
+        s = Series([np.nan, np.nan, np.nan], dtype=np.object_)
+
+        result = s.str.contains('foo', na=False)
+        expected = Series([False, False, False], dtype=np.bool_)
+        assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+        result = s.str.contains('foo', na=True)
+        expected = Series([True, True, True], dtype=np.bool_)
+        assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+        result = s.str.contains('foo', na="foo")
+        expected = Series(["foo", "foo", "foo"], dtype=np.object_)
+        assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+        result = s.str.contains('foo')
+        expected = Series([np.nan, np.nan, np.nan], dtype=np.object_)
+        assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
     def test_more_replace(self):
         # PR #1179
         s = Series(['A', 'B', 'C', 'Aaba', 'Baca', '', NA, 'CABA',