BUG: Resolving fallback from skipna flag in groupby().sum()

[mukundm19]

• closes DataFrame.groupby().sum() treating Nan as 0.0 #20824
• passes git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff
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Issue #20824 found that a fallback was occuring when df.Groupby().sum() was called with the skipna flag. This was occurring because the _cython_agg_general function was not accepting the argument, which has now been fixed. The fallback still occurs with strings in the df, however this is a deeper issue stemming from the _aggregate() call in groupby/ops.py (line 572).

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[WillAyd]

Please add a test - should be the first part of any PR

[jreback]

needs a tests & whastnew

[jreback]

needs test; ping if you want to continue working.

[sireesha-m]

Hi folks,
How can one resolve this issue? I am using pandas 1.0.3 and experiencing the same issue, "skipna" is not being accepted by sum() function. The call below is failing with a similar error

cnt = df.groupby(groupby_cols).sum(skipna=False)[prop_cols]

_cython_agg_general() got an unexpected keyword argument 'skipna'