Adjust tests

Author: mroeschke

pandas/tests/generic/test_to_xarray.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
     DataFrame,
     MultiIndex,
     Series,
-    StringDtype,
     date_range,
 )
 import pandas._testing as tm
@@ -36,6 +35,8 @@ def test_to_xarray_index_types(self, index_flat, df, request):
         # MultiIndex is tested in test_to_xarray_with_multiindex
         if len(index) == 0:
             pytest.skip("Test doesn't make sense for empty index")
+        if Version(xarray.__version__) < Version("2025.9.0"):
+            pytest.skip("Xarray bug https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/9661")
 
         df.index = index[:4]
         df.index.name = "foo"
@@ -82,19 +83,8 @@ def test_to_xarray_with_multiindex(self, df, using_infer_string):
 
 class TestSeriesToXArray:
     def test_to_xarray_index_types(self, index_flat, request):
-        index = index_flat
-        if (
-            isinstance(index.dtype, StringDtype)
-            and index.dtype.storage == "pyarrow"
-            and Version(xarray.__version__) < Version("2025.6.0")
-        ):
-            request.applymarker(
-                pytest.mark.xfail(
-                    reason="xarray calling reshape of ArrowExtensionArray",
-                    raises=NotImplementedError,
-                )
-            )
         # MultiIndex is tested in test_to_xarray_with_multiindex
+        index = index_flat
 
         ser = Series(range(len(index)), index=index, dtype="int64")
         ser.index.name = "foo"

pandas/tests/io/test_fsspec.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
 
 from pandas.compat import HAS_PYARROW
+from pandas.compat.pyarrow import pa_version_under14p0
 
 from pandas import (
     DataFrame,
@@ -179,7 +180,8 @@ def test_excel_options(fsspectest):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.xfail(
-    using_string_dtype() and HAS_PYARROW, reason="TODO(infer_string) fastparquet"
+    using_string_dtype() and HAS_PYARROW and not pa_version_under14p0,
+    reason="TODO(infer_string) fastparquet",
 )
 def test_to_parquet_new_file(cleared_fs, df1):
     """Regression test for writing to a not-yet-existent GCS Parquet file."""