Backport PR #60713: TST(string dtype): Resolve xfail in test_base.py

Author: rhshadrach

pandas/core/arrays/string_.py

@@ -531,6 +531,11 @@ def _str_map_nan_semantics(
         else:
             return self._str_map_str_or_object(dtype, na_value, arr, f, mask)
 
+    def view(self, dtype: Dtype | None = None) -> ArrayLike:
+        if dtype is not None:
+            raise TypeError("Cannot change data-type for string array.")
+        return super().view(dtype=dtype)
+
 
 # error: Definition of "_concat_same_type" in base class "NDArrayBacked" is
 # incompatible with definition in base class "ExtensionArray"

pandas/tests/indexes/test_base.py

@@ -354,14 +354,11 @@ def test_view_with_args_object_array_raises(self, index):
             msg = "When changing to a larger dtype"
             with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
                 index.view("i8")
-        elif index.dtype == "str" and not index.dtype.storage == "python":
-            # TODO(infer_string): Make the errors consistent
-            with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError, match="i8"):
-                index.view("i8")
         else:
             msg = (
-                "Cannot change data-type for array of references|"
-                "Cannot change data-type for object array|"
+                r"Cannot change data-type for array of references\.|"
+                r"Cannot change data-type for object array\.|"
+                r"Cannot change data-type for array of strings\.|"
             )
             with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg):
                 index.view("i8")