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Reproducible Example

>>> pd.options.mode.dtype_backend = 'pyarrow'
>>> ser = pd.Series([1,2,3], dtype="int64[pyarrow]")
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame({"A": ser})
>>> scalar = pa.scalar(23)
>>> scalar
<pyarrow.Int64Scalar: 23>
>>> df2["B"] = scalar
>>> df2["B"].dtype
dtype('O')
>>>

Issue Description

Since "B" is a brand new column, the dtype should be "int64[pyarrow]", not object.

Expected Behavior

With numpy scalars, the type inferred is a numpy type, so with a pyarrow scalar, I expect the type to be an arrow type, in this case, "int64[pyarrow]", not object.

Installed Versions

>>> pd.show_versions() INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 1a2e300170efc08cb509a0b4ff6248f8d55ae777 python : 3.8.10.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Windows OS-release : 10 Version : 10.0.22621 machine : AMD64 processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 85 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : None LOCALE : English_United States.1252 pandas : 2.0.0rc0 numpy : 1.24.2 pytz : 2022.7.1 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 67.2.0 pip : 22.3.1 Cython : None pytest : None 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 : 2023.2.0 fsspec : 2023.3.0 gcsfs : None matplotlib : None numba : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : None pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : 11.0.0 pyreadstat : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : None snappy : None sqlalchemy : None tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None zstandard : None tzdata : None qtpy : None pyqt5 : None >>>

Comment From: mroeschke

Thanks for the report. I'd venture if/when pandas takes on pyarrow as a required dependency we can always check for pyarrow objects without also checking if a user has pyarrow installed first https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/50285

Comment From: mroeschke

Noting that replacing an existing arrow backed column with a pa.scalar works

In [2]: import pyarrow as pa

In [3]: arr = pd.arrays.ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array([1, 2], type=pa.int8()))

In [4]: arr[1] = pa.scalar(23)

In [5]: arr
Out[5]:
<ArrowExtensionArray>
[1, 23]
Length: 2, dtype: int8[pyarrow]

In [6]: ser = Series(arr)

In [7]: ser[1] = pa.scalar(24)

In [8]: ser
Out[8]:
0     1
1    24
dtype: int8[pyarrow]