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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "A": ["foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "bar", "bar", "bar", "bar"],
        "B": ["one", "one", "one", "two", "two", "one", "one", "two", "two"],
        "C": [
            "small",
            "large",
            "large",
            "small",
            "small",
            "large",
            "small",
            "small",
            "large",
        ],
        "D": [1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
        "E": [2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 9],
        ("col5",): ["foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "bar", "bar", "bar", "bar"],
        ("col6", 6): [
            "one",
            "one",
            "one",
            "two",
            "two",
            "one",
            "one",
            "two",
            "two",
        ],
        (7, "seven"): [
            "small",
            "large",
            "large",
            "small",
            "small",
            "large",
            "small",
            "small",
            "large",
        ],
    }
)
pd.pivot_table(df, values="D", index=["A", "B"], columns=[(7, "seven")], aggfunc=np.sum)

Issue Description

With pandas 1.5.2 and numpy 1.23.5, we get:

C:\Anaconda3\envs\pstubtst\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\common.py:245: VisibleDeprecationWarning: Creating an ndarray from ragged nested sequences (which is a list-or-tuple of lists-or-tuples-or ndarrays with different lengths or shapes) is deprecated. If you meant to do this, you must specify 'dtype=object' when creating the ndarray.
  result = np.asarray(values, dtype=dtype)

With pandas 1.5.2 and numpy 1.24.0, we get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Code\pstubtst\np124.py", line 46, in <module>
    pd.pivot_table(
  File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\pstubtst\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\reshape\pivot.py", line 97, in pivot_table
    table = __internal_pivot_table(
  File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\pstubtst\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\reshape\pivot.py", line 155, in __internal_pivot_table
    data = data[to_filter]
  File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\pstubtst\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line 3811, in __getitem__
    indexer = self.columns._get_indexer_strict(key, "columns")[1]
  File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\pstubtst\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexes\base.py", line 6105, in _get_indexer_strict
    keyarr = com.asarray_tuplesafe(keyarr)
  File "C:\Anaconda3\envs\pstubtst\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\common.py", line 245, in asarray_tuplesafe
    result = np.asarray(values, dtype=dtype)
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence. The requested array has an inhomogeneous shape after 1 dimensions. The detected shape was (4,) + inhomogeneous part.

Expected Behavior

We should trap the error from numpy 1.24.0

This was picked up with pandas-stubs. Created PR to pin numpy there https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas-stubs/pull/475

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 8dab54d6573f7186ff0c3b6364d5e4dd635ff3e7 python : 3.9.13.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Windows OS-release : 10 Version : 10.0.19045 machine : AMD64 processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13, GenuineIntel byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : None LOCALE : English_United States.1252 pandas : 1.5.2 numpy : 1.24.0 pytz : 2022.1 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 62.3.2 pip : 22.3.1 Cython : None pytest : 7.1.2 hypothesis : None sphinx : None blosc : None feather : None xlsxwriter : None lxml.etree : None html5lib : None pymysql : None psycopg2 : None jinja2 : None IPython : None pandas_datareader: None bs4 : None bottleneck : None brotli : None fastparquet : None fsspec : None gcsfs : None matplotlib : 3.6.2 numba : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : None pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : None pyreadstat : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : None snappy : None sqlalchemy : 1.4.41 tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None xlwt : None zstandard : None tzdata : None