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BUG: Concatenating categorical datetime columns raises a ValueError since v1.2 #45926

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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion pandas/tests/reshape/concat/test_categorical.py
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import numpy as np

from datetime import datetime
from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import CategoricalDtype

import pandas as pd
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)
tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)

def test_concat_categorical_datetime(self):
# GH-39443
df1 = DataFrame(
{"x": Series(datetime(2021, 1, 1), index=[0], dtype="category")})
df2 = DataFrame(
{"x": Series(datetime(2021, 1, 2), index=[1], dtype="category")})

result = pd.concat([df1, df2])
expected = DataFrame(
{"x": Series([datetime(2021, 1, 1), datetime(2021, 1, 2)])})

tm.assert_equal(result, expected)

def test_concat_categorical_unchanged(self):
# GH-12007
# test fix for when concat on categorical and float
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