whatsnew

Author: arthurlw

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ Categorical
 - Bug in :meth:`Categorical.astype` where ``copy=False`` would still trigger a copy of the codes (:issue:`62000`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.pivot` and :meth:`DataFrame.set_index` raising an ``ArrowNotImplementedError`` for columns with pyarrow dictionary dtype (:issue:`53051`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.convert_dtypes` with ``dtype_backend="pyarrow"`` where empty :class:`CategoricalDtype` :class:`Series` raised an error or got converted to ``null[pyarrow]`` (:issue:`59934`)
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+- Bug in :meth:`array.astype` where casting a pyarrow-backed array to a temporal :class:`CategoricalDtype` (e.g. with datetime or timedelta categories) raised or incorrectly converted values to all ``NaT`` (:issue:`62051`)
 
 Datetimelike
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^