REF: simplify _cython_operation return

pandas/core/groupby/generic.py

@@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ def py_fallback(bvalues: ArrayLike) -> ArrayLike:
         def blk_func(bvalues: ArrayLike) -> ArrayLike:
 
             try:
-                result, _ = self.grouper._cython_operation(
+                result = self.grouper._cython_operation(
                     "aggregate", bvalues, how, axis=1, min_count=min_count
                 )
             except NotImplementedError:

pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class providing the base-class of operations.
 from pandas.errors import AbstractMethodError
 from pandas.util._decorators import Appender, Substitution, cache_readonly, doc
 
-from pandas.core.dtypes.cast import maybe_cast_result, maybe_downcast_to_dtype
+from pandas.core.dtypes.cast import maybe_downcast_to_dtype
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
     ensure_float,
     is_bool_dtype,
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ def _cython_transform(
                 continue
 
             try:
-                result, _ = self.grouper._cython_operation(
+                result = self.grouper._cython_operation(
                     "transform", obj._values, how, axis, **kwargs
                 )
             except NotImplementedError:
@@ -1069,12 +1069,13 @@ def _cython_agg_general(
             if numeric_only and not is_numeric:
                 continue
 
-            result, agg_names = self.grouper._cython_operation(
+            result = self.grouper._cython_operation(
                 "aggregate", obj._values, how, axis=0, min_count=min_count
             )
 
-            if agg_names:
+            if how == "ohlc":
                 # e.g. ohlc
+                agg_names = ["open", "high", "low", "close"]
                 assert len(agg_names) == result.shape[1]
                 for result_column, result_name in zip(result.T, agg_names):
                     key = base.OutputKey(label=result_name, position=idx)

pandas/core/groupby/ops.py

@@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ def get_group_levels(self) -> List[Index]:
 
     _cython_arity = {"ohlc": 4}  # OHLC
 
-    _name_functions = {"ohlc": ["open", "high", "low", "close"]}
-
     def _is_builtin_func(self, arg):
         """
         if we define a builtin function for this argument, return it,
@@ -492,36 +490,33 @@ def _ea_wrap_cython_operation(
             # All of the functions implemented here are ordinal, so we can
             #  operate on the tz-naive equivalents
             values = values.view("M8[ns]")
-            res_values, names = self._cython_operation(
+            res_values = self._cython_operation(
                 kind, values, how, axis, min_count, **kwargs
             )
             if how in ["rank"]:
                 # preserve float64 dtype
-                return res_values, names
+                return res_values
 
             res_values = res_values.astype("i8", copy=False)
             result = type(orig_values)._simple_new(res_values, dtype=orig_values.dtype)
-            return result, names
+            return result
 
         elif is_integer_dtype(values.dtype) or is_bool_dtype(values.dtype):
             # IntegerArray or BooleanArray
             values = ensure_int_or_float(values)
-            res_values, names = self._cython_operation(
+            res_values = self._cython_operation(
                 kind, values, how, axis, min_count, **kwargs
             )
             result = maybe_cast_result(result=res_values, obj=orig_values, how=how)
-            return result, names
+            return result
 
         raise NotImplementedError(values.dtype)
 
     def _cython_operation(
         self, kind: str, values, how: str, axis: int, min_count: int = -1, **kwargs
-    ) -> Tuple[np.ndarray, Optional[List[str]]]:
+    ) -> np.ndarray:
         """
-        Returns the values of a cython operation as a Tuple of [data, names].
-
-        Names is only useful when dealing with 2D results, like ohlc
-        (see self._name_functions).
+        Returns the values of a cython operation.
         """
         orig_values = values
         assert kind in ["transform", "aggregate"]
@@ -619,8 +614,6 @@ def _cython_operation(
         if vdim == 1 and arity == 1:
             result = result[:, 0]
 
-        names: Optional[List[str]] = self._name_functions.get(how, None)
-
         if swapped:
             result = result.swapaxes(0, axis)
 
@@ -630,7 +623,7 @@ def _cython_operation(
             dtype = maybe_cast_result_dtype(orig_values.dtype, how)
             result = maybe_downcast_to_dtype(result, dtype)
 
-        return result, names
+        return result
 
     def _aggregate(
         self, result, counts, values, comp_ids, agg_func, min_count: int = -1