From 48849a1959ed834c024cc570fe73b5ca02db04ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Augspurger <tom.w.augspurger@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:39:07 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Fix the string example.

After moving StringArray to use pd.NA `.astype(object)` had
NA instead of NaN, so the output was object rather than float.
---
 doc/source/user_guide/text.rst | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/text.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/text.rst
index 7a8400d124b22..88c86ac212f11 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/text.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/text.rst
@@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ l. For ``StringDtype``, :ref:`string accessor methods<api.series.str>`
 
    .. ipython:: python
 
-      s.astype(object).str.count("a")
-      s.astype(object).dropna().str.count("a")
+      s2 = pd.Series(["a", None, "b"], dtype="object")
+      s2.str.count("a")
+      s2.dropna().str.count("a")
 
    When NA values are present, the output dtype is float64. Similarly for
    methods returning boolean values.