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DeprecateFunctionality to remove in pandasFunctionality to remove in pandasNeeds DiscussionRequires discussion from core team before further actionRequires discussion from core team before further action
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The following changes the dtype, which is unexpected:
idx = pd.Index(pd.date_range("2015-01-01 10:00", freq="D", periods=3), dtype=object)
pd.Index(idx).dtype
this returns datetime64[ns]
Doing inference on a pandas object is pretty weird, this makes stuff very complicated with the new string option. Set_Index can change the dtype, e.g.
df = pd.DataFrame({"a": pd.Series(pd.date_range("2015-01-01 10:00", freq="D", periods=3), dtype=object), "b": 1})
df.dtypes
a object
b int64
dtype: object
df.set_index("a").index.dtype
datetime64[ns]
Users can just call infer_objects if they want to do inference. We should keep the inference logic for non-pandas objects
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