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Reproducible Example
pandas master branch:
import pandas as pd
import numpy
>>> pd.Series(['1970-01-01', '1970-01-01', '1970-01-01'], dtype="datetime64[ns]").astype(numpy.datetime64, copy=False)
*** TypeError: Cannot cast DatetimeArray to dtype datetime64
Issue Description
I'm not sure whether it is expect behavior. I can repro on main branch, but can not repro on 1.4.x. I know pandas community introduce a new feature about ENH: DTI/DTA.astype support non-nano . But the new feature disable the original code tree. In this case, the original code tree will locate on
elif self.tz is None and is_datetime64_dtype(dtype) and dtype != self.dtype:
# unit conversion e.g. datetime64[s]
return self._ndarray.astype(dtype)
But now, it is
return dtl.DatetimeLikeArrayMixin.astype(self, dtype, copy)
And raise an error.
Expected Behavior
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy
>>> pd.Series(['1970-01-01', '1970-01-01', '1970-01-01'], dtype="datetime64[ns]").astype(numpy.datetime64, copy=False)
0 1970-01-01
1 1970-01-01
2 1970-01-01
dtype: datetime64[ns]
Installed Versions
Comment From: mroeschke
cc @jbrockmendel
Comment From: jbrockmendel
Looks like passing dtype=np.datetime64
is equivalent to passing dtype = "datetime64"
, which we don't accept bc it is unit-less, but numpy accepts when we pass it to self._ndarray.astype(dtype)
. So the new behavior is "more correct"
Comment From: mroeschke
Is it worth defaulting this case to nanosecond or just documenting this change?
Comment From: jbrockmendel
i think just document, otherwise we're special-casing in this one place and will be inconsistent elsewhere
Comment From: jorisvandenbossche
I ran into this issue as well in the dask test suite, this change is giving some failures there (https://github.com/dask/dask/pull/9465).
So this worked before:
In [1]: s = pd.Series(pd.date_range("2012-01-01", periods=3))
In [2]: s.astype(np.dtype("M8"))
Out[2]:
0 2012-01-01
1 2012-01-02
2 2012-01-03
dtype: datetime64[ns]
and is now indeed raising.
I agree that we should ideally raise in this case, but given this has been working fine, I think we should consider deprecating this first.
Comment From: jesusch
Seems this was reintroduced in pandas 2.0.0?
Comment From: maxschulz-COL
Seem to have the same issue, worked fine in pandas == 1.5.3
and not breaks in 2.0.0