GH 956 PR feedback

Author: loicdiridollou

pandas-stubs/core/tools/timedeltas.pyi

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from pandas._libs.tslibs.timedeltas import TimeDeltaUnitChoices
 from pandas._typing import (
     ArrayLike,
     RaiseCoerce,
+    SequenceNotStr,
 )
 
 @overload
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@ def to_timedelta(
 @overload
 def to_timedelta(
     arg: (
-        Sequence[str | float | timedelta]
+        SequenceNotStr[str]
+        | Sequence[float | timedelta]
         | tuple[str | float | timedelta, ...]
         | range
         | ArrayLike

tests/test_timefuncs.py

@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
     from pandas._typing import FulldatetimeDict
 else:
     FulldatetimeDict = Any
-from pandas._typing import TimeUnit
+from pandas._typing import (
+    SequenceNotStr,
+    TimeUnit,
+)
 
 from tests import (
     PD_LTE_22,
@@ -141,7 +144,8 @@ def test_timedelta_series_arithmetic() -> None:
 
 
 def test_timedelta_series_string() -> None:
-    check(assert_type(pd.to_timedelta(["1 day"]), pd.TimedeltaIndex), pd.TimedeltaIndex)
+    seq_list: SequenceNotStr[str] = ["1 day"]
+    check(assert_type(pd.to_timedelta(seq_list), pd.TimedeltaIndex), pd.TimedeltaIndex)
 
 
 def test_timestamp_timedelta_series_arithmetic() -> None: