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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

series = pd.Series(
    ['a','b','c','d']
).astype(bytes)

series.shift(1)  # will fail with RecursionError

Issue Description

pandas.Series.shift() works for me in most cases, but not with the bytes datatype used in the example, or with numpy equivalent types (e.g. np.dtype('aN')).

Expected Behavior

series.shift(1) should return [None, 'a', 'b', 'c'] in the example, probably changing the dtype to object to accommodate None.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 8dab54d6573f7186ff0c3b6364d5e4dd635ff3e7 python : 3.10.6.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 5.19.3-051903-generic Version : #202208211442 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Aug 21 14:54:49 UTC 2022 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8 pandas : 1.5.2 numpy : 1.21.5 pytz : 2022.1 dateutil : 2.8.2 setuptools : 59.6.0 pip : 23.0.1 Cython : 0.29.32 pytest : 7.1.2 hypothesis : None sphinx : None blosc : None feather : None xlsxwriter : None lxml.etree : 4.8.0 html5lib : 1.1 pymysql : None psycopg2 : 2.9.3 jinja2 : 3.0.3 IPython : 8.4.0 pandas_datareader: None bs4 : 4.10.0 bottleneck : None brotli : 1.0.9 fastparquet : None fsspec : 2022.7.1 gcsfs : None matplotlib : 3.5.1 numba : 0.56.0 numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : 3.0.10 pandas_gbq : None pyarrow : None pyreadstat : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : 1.8.0 snappy : None sqlalchemy : 1.4.44 tables : None tabulate : 0.8.10 xarray : None xlrd : 1.2.0 xlwt : None zstandard : None tzdata : None