Doc: Update docstring for dummy_na parameter (#60000)

* update docstring for dummy_na parameter * Update pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py Co-authored-by: Matthew Roeschke <10647082+mroeschke@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Matthew Roeschke <10647082+mroeschke@users.noreply.github.com>
pandas-dev · Oct 8, 2024 · 5126dca · 5126dca
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diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py b/pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ def get_dummies(
         If appending prefix, separator/delimiter to use. Or pass a
         list or dictionary as with `prefix`.
     dummy_na : bool, default False
-        Add a column to indicate NaNs, if False NaNs are ignored.
+        If True, a NaN indicator column will be added even if no NaN values are present.
+        If False, NA values are encoded as all zero.
     columns : list-like, default None
         Column names in the DataFrame to be encoded.
         If `columns` is None then all the columns with