BUG: DataFrame.rank & Series.rank results are inconsistent

[galipremsagar]

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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy as np
>>> values = [-np.inf, 0, np.inf, np.nan, 2, np.nan]         
>>> s = pd.Series(values)
>>> s
0   -inf
1    0.0
2    inf
3    NaN
4    2.0
5    NaN
dtype: float64
>>> kwargs = {'method': 'dense', 'na_option': 'bottom', 'ascending': False, 'pct': False, 'numeric_only': False}
>>> s.rank(**kwargs)
0    4.0
1    3.0
2    1.0
3    5.0
4    2.0
5    5.0
dtype: float64
>>> pd.DataFrame({'a':s}).rank(**kwargs)
     a
0  4.0
1  3.0
2  1.0
3  4.0
4  2.0
5  4.0
>>> 

Problem description

The results being returned by Series.rank & DataFrame.rank seem to be inconsistent.

Expected Output

Output of DataFrame.rank must be returned correctly(as is being done by Series.rank)

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 5f648bf
python : 3.8.10.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.11.0-27-generic
Version : #29~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 11 15:58:17 UTC 2021
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 1.3.2
numpy : 1.21.2
pytz : 2021.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
pip : 21.2.4
setuptools : 57.4.0
Cython : 0.29.24
pytest : 6.2.4
hypothesis : 6.17.2
sphinx : 4.1.2
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.0.1
IPython : 7.27.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.9.3
bottleneck : None
fsspec : 2021.07.0
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 5.0.0
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
numba : 0.53.1

[phofl]

Duplicate of #32593

[galipremsagar]

@phofl This issues seems to be occurring in the most recent version of pandas as posted in the versions tab.

[phofl]

This works on master

[phofl]

But you are correct, this was fixed by #41931

[galipremsagar]

Thanks @phofl !