updates based on feedback from @mroeschke

Author: kirill-bash

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ Interval
 Indexing
 ^^^^^^^^
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.__getitem__` returning modified columns when called with ``slice`` in Python 3.12 (:issue:`57500`)
-- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.from_records()` throwing a ValueError when passed an empty list as an index (:issue:`58594`)
+- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.from_records` throwing a ``ValueError`` when passed an empty list in ``index`` (:issue:`58594`)
 -
 
 Missing

pandas/core/indexes/base.py

@@ -7476,7 +7476,7 @@ def ensure_index_from_sequences(sequences, names=None) -> Index:
     from pandas.core.indexes.multi import MultiIndex
 
     if len(sequences) == 0:
-        return []
+        return Index([])
     elif len(sequences) == 1:
         if names is not None:
             names = names[0]

pandas/tests/frame/constructors/test_from_records.py

@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ def test_from_records_sequencelike_empty(self):
         assert len(result) == 0
         assert len(result.columns) == 0
 
+    def test_from_records_sequencelike_empty_index(self):
         result = DataFrame.from_records([], index=[])
         assert len(result) == 0
         assert len(result.columns) == 0