TYP: Arraylike

[jbrockmendel]

@simonjayhawkins mypy doesn't like this

$ mypy pandas
pandas/core/base.py:679: error: "ArrayLike" has no attribute "nbytes"
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:246: error: Type variable "pandas._typing.ArrayLike" is unbound
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:246: note: (Hint: Use "Generic[ArrayLike]" or "Protocol[ArrayLike]" base class to bind "ArrayLike" inside a class)
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:246: note: (Hint: Use "ArrayLike" in function signature to bind "ArrayLike" inside a function)
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:1152: error: "ArrayLike" has no attribute "copy"
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:3881: error: ArrayLike? has no attribute "view"
pandas/core/series.py:252: error: "ArrayLike" has no attribute "copy"
pandas/io/pytables.py:2240: error: "ExtensionDtype" has no attribute "itemsize"
pandas/io/pytables.py:2245: error: "ExtensionArray" has no attribute "size"
pandas/io/pytables.py:2248: error: "ExtensionArray" has no attribute "codes"
pandas/io/pytables.py:4985: error: "ExtensionArray" has no attribute "codes"

Is this a product of ArrayLike being a TypeVar instead of a Union? At least the last two look like they need to be Categorical instead of ExtensionArray, not sure about the others.

[WillAyd]

pandas/core/indexes/base.py:246: error: Type variable "pandas._typing.ArrayLike" is unbound
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:246: note: (Hint: Use "Generic[ArrayLike]" or "Protocol[ArrayLike]" base class to bind "ArrayLike" inside a class)
pandas/core/indexes/base.py:246: note: (Hint: Use "ArrayLike" in function signature to bind "ArrayLike" inside a function)

@simonjayhawkins might know better but I don't think you can use a TypeVar for a class instance; the point of it is to make for generic functions and just assigned to a standalone variable that might not make sense

[jbrockmendel]

so should we implement something else in pandas._typing for Union[np.ndarray, "ExtensionArray"]?

[jbrockmendel]

closing to clear the queue