DEPR: move NumericIndex._maybe_cast_slice_bound to Index

Author: topper-123

pandas/core/indexes/base.py

@@ -6291,11 +6291,9 @@ def _maybe_cast_slice_bound(self, label, side: str_t):
         """
 
         # We are a plain index here (sub-class override this method if they
-        # wish to have special treatment for floats/ints, e.g. NumericIndex and
-        # datetimelike Indexes
-        # Special case numeric EA Indexes, since they are not handled by NumericIndex
+        # wish to have special treatment for floats/ints, e.g. datetimelike Indexes
 
-        if is_extension_array_dtype(self.dtype) and is_numeric_dtype(self.dtype):
+        if is_numeric_dtype(self.dtype):
             return self._maybe_cast_indexer(label)
 
         # reject them, if index does not contain label

pandas/core/indexes/numeric.py

@@ -169,11 +169,6 @@ def _ensure_dtype(cls, dtype: Dtype | None) -> np.dtype | None:
     def _should_fallback_to_positional(self) -> bool:
         return False
 
-    @doc(Index._maybe_cast_slice_bound)
-    def _maybe_cast_slice_bound(self, label, side: str):
-        # we will try to coerce to integers
-        return self._maybe_cast_indexer(label)
-
     # ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @classmethod