DEPR: Deprecate empty bool indexer for Index

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.0.rst

@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ Other Deprecations
 - Deprecated automatic downcasting of object-dtype results in :meth:`Series.replace` and :meth:`DataFrame.replace`, explicitly call ``result = result.infer_objects(copy=False)`` instead. To opt in to the future version, use ``pd.set_option("future.no_silent_downcasting", True)`` (:issue:`54710`)
 - Deprecated downcasting behavior in :meth:`Series.where`, :meth:`DataFrame.where`, :meth:`Series.mask`, :meth:`DataFrame.mask`, :meth:`Series.clip`, :meth:`DataFrame.clip`; in a future version these will not infer object-dtype columns to non-object dtype, or all-round floats to integer dtype. Call ``result.infer_objects(copy=False)`` on the result for object inference, or explicitly cast floats to ints. To opt in to the future version, use ``pd.set_option("future.no_silent_downcasting", True)`` (:issue:`53656`)
 - Deprecated including the groups in computations when using :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.apply` and :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.resample`; pass ``include_groups=False`` to exclude the groups (:issue:`7155`)
+- Deprecated indexing an :class:`Index`  with a boolean indexer of length zero (:issue:`55820`)
 - Deprecated not passing a tuple to :class:`DataFrameGroupBy.get_group` or :class:`SeriesGroupBy.get_group` when grouping by a length-1 list-like (:issue:`25971`)
 - Deprecated string ``AS`` denoting frequency in :class:`YearBegin` and strings ``AS-DEC``, ``AS-JAN``, etc. denoting annual frequencies with various fiscal year starts (:issue:`54275`)
 - Deprecated string ``A`` denoting frequency in :class:`YearEnd` and strings ``A-DEC``, ``A-JAN``, etc. denoting annual frequencies with various fiscal year ends (:issue:`54275`)

pandas/core/indexes/base.py

@@ -5352,6 +5352,16 @@ def __getitem__(self, key):
             else:
                 key = np.asarray(key, dtype=bool)
 
+            if not isinstance(self.dtype, ExtensionDtype):
+                if len(key) == 0 and len(key) != len(self):
+                    warnings.warn(
+                        "Using a boolean indexer with length 0 on an Index with "
+                        "length greater than 0 is deprecated and will raise in a "
+                        "future version.",
+                        FutureWarning,
+                        stacklevel=find_stack_level(),
+                    )
+
         result = getitem(key)
         # Because we ruled out integer above, we always get an arraylike here
         if result.ndim > 1:

pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py

@@ -462,7 +462,11 @@ def test_empty_fancy(self, index, dtype):
         empty_index = type(index)([], dtype=index.dtype)
 
         assert index[[]].identical(empty_index)
-        assert index[empty_arr].identical(empty_index)
+        if dtype == np.bool_:
+            with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning, match="is deprecated"):
+                assert index[empty_arr].identical(empty_index)
+        else:
+            assert index[empty_arr].identical(empty_index)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "index",

pandas/tests/internals/test_internals.py

@@ -991,7 +991,6 @@ def assert_slice_ok(mgr, axis, slobj):
                 # 2D only support slice objects
 
                 # boolean mask
-                assert_slice_ok(mgr, ax, np.array([], dtype=np.bool_))
                 assert_slice_ok(mgr, ax, np.ones(mgr.shape[ax], dtype=np.bool_))
                 assert_slice_ok(mgr, ax, np.zeros(mgr.shape[ax], dtype=np.bool_))