Initialize empty Pandas series and conditionally add to it

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If I understand correctly , you can using add + fill_value=0

equation = pd.Series([])
if keep['seasonality']:
    equation = equation.add(months,fill_value=0)
if keep['age']:
    equation = equation.add(age,fill_value=0)
equation
Out[91]: 
0    2.0
1    3.0
2    3.0
3    4.0
4    5.0
dtype: float64