silence some of the deprecation warnings

saqc/core/core.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ TODOS:
 
 import logging
 from copy import deepcopy
-from typing import List, Tuple, Dict, Any, Callable
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
 
 import pandas as pd
 import dios
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def _setup():
     # NOTE:
     # the import is needed to trigger the registration
     # of the built-in (test-)functions
-    import saqc.funcs
+    pass
 
     # warnings
     pd.set_option("mode.chained_assignment", "warn")
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ def _saqcCallFunc(func_dump, data, flagger):
     # Any newly assigned column can safely be ignored by masking, thus
     # this check comes after setting `columns`
     if field not in flagger.getFlags():
-        flagger = flagger.merge(flagger.initFlags(data=pd.Series(name=field)))
+        flagger = flagger.merge(
+            flagger.initFlags(data=pd.Series(name=field, dtype=np.float64)))
 
     data_in, mask = _maskData(data, flagger, columns, to_mask)
     data_result, flagger_result = func(data_in, field, flagger, *func_args, func_name=func_name, **func_kws)

saqc/funcs/functions.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import pandas as pd
 import dtw
 import pywt
 from mlxtend.evaluate import permutation_test
-import datetime
 
 from saqc.lib.tools import groupConsecutives, sesonalMask
 
@@ -209,7 +208,9 @@ def flagGeneric(data, field, flagger, func, nodata=np.nan, **kwargs):
         raise TypeError(f"generic expression does not return a boolean array")
 
     if flagger.getFlags(field).empty:
-        flagger = flagger.merge(flagger.initFlags(data=pd.Series(name=field, index=mask.index)))
+        flagger = flagger.merge(
+            flagger.initFlags(
+                data=pd.Series(name=field, index=mask.index, dtype=np.float64)))
     flagger = flagger.setFlags(field, mask, **kwargs)
     return data, flagger