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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion pandas/core/arrays/base.py
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Expand Up @@ -455,14 +455,19 @@ def astype(self, dtype, copy=True):
NumPy ndarray with 'dtype' for its dtype.
"""
from pandas.core.arrays.string_ import StringDtype
from pandas.core.arrays.string_arrow import ArrowStringDtype

dtype = pandas_dtype(dtype)
if is_dtype_equal(dtype, self.dtype):
if not copy:
return self
elif copy:
return self.copy()
if isinstance(dtype, StringDtype): # allow conversion to StringArrays

# FIXME: Really hard-code here?
if isinstance(
dtype, (ArrowStringDtype, StringDtype)
): # allow conversion to StringArrays
return dtype.construct_array_type()._from_sequence(self, copy=False)

return np.array(self, dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow/__init__.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
# flake8: noqa: F401

from pandas.core.arrays.string_arrow.dtype import ArrowStringDtype
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