pandas-dev#25087: Favor .loc instead of _take

Author: rs2

pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -4615,7 +4615,7 @@ def dropna(self, axis=0, how='any', thresh=None, subset=None,
                 else:
                     raise TypeError('must specify how or thresh')
 
-            result = self._take(mask.to_numpy().nonzero()[0], axis=axis)
+            result = self.loc(axis=axis)[mask.to_numpy()]
 
         if inplace:
             self._update_inplace(result)