remove bytes

Author: TomAugspurger

pandas/core/arrays/base.py

@@ -675,12 +675,6 @@ def __repr__(self):
                                length=len(self),
                                dtype=self.dtype)
 
-    def __bytes__(self):
-        from pandas.core.config import get_option
-
-        encoding = get_option("display.encoding")
-        return str(self).encode(encoding, 'replace')
-
     def _formatter(self, formatter=None):
         # type: (Optional[ExtensionArrayFormatter]) -> Callable[[Any], str]
         """Formatting function for scalar values.

pandas/core/arrays/categorical.py

@@ -1991,11 +1991,9 @@ def __unicode__(self):
         return result
 
     def __repr__(self):
+        # We want PandasObject.__repr__, which dispatches to __unicode__
         return super(ExtensionArray, self).__repr__()
 
-    def __bytes__(self):
-        return super(ExtensionArray, self).__bytes__()
-
     def _maybe_coerce_indexer(self, indexer):
         """ return an indexer coerced to the codes dtype """
         if isinstance(indexer, np.ndarray) and indexer.dtype.kind == 'i':

pandas/tests/extension/base/printing.py

@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@ def test_array_repr(self, data, size):
         if size == 'big':
             assert '...' in result
 
-    def test_array_repr_bytes(self, data):
-        result = bytes(data)
-        if compat.PY2:
-            assert isinstance(result, str)
-        else:
-            assert isinstance(result, bytes)
-
     def test_array_repr_unicode(self, data):
         result = compat.text_type(data)
         assert isinstance(result, compat.text_type)