import pandas as pd from pandas.core.internals import ObjectBlock from .base import BaseExtensionTests class BaseCastingTests(BaseExtensionTests): """Casting to and from ExtensionDtypes""" def test_astype_object_series(self, all_data): ser = pd.Series({"A": all_data}) result = ser.astype(object) assert isinstance(result._data.blocks[0], ObjectBlock) def test_tolist(self, data): result = pd.Series(data).tolist() expected = list(data) assert result == expected def test_astype_str(self, data): result = pd.Series(data[:5]).astype(str) expected = pd.Series(data[:5].astype(str)) self.assert_series_equal(result, expected)