TST (string dtype): avoid explicit object dtype Index in fixture data

Author: jorisvandenbossche

pandas/conftest.py

@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ def multiindex_year_month_day_dataframe_random_data():
     """
     tdf = DataFrame(
         np.random.default_rng(2).standard_normal((100, 4)),
-        columns=Index(list("ABCD"), dtype=object),
+        columns=Index(list("ABCD")),
         index=date_range("2000-01-01", periods=100, freq="B"),
     )
     ymd = tdf.groupby([lambda x: x.year, lambda x: x.month, lambda x: x.day]).sum()
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ def string_series() -> Series:
     """
     return Series(
         np.arange(30, dtype=np.float64) * 1.1,
-        index=Index([f"i_{i}" for i in range(30)], dtype=object),
+        index=Index([f"i_{i}" for i in range(30)]),
         name="series",
     )
 
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ def object_series() -> Series:
     Fixture for Series of dtype object with Index of unique strings
     """
     data = [f"foo_{i}" for i in range(30)]
-    index = Index([f"bar_{i}" for i in range(30)], dtype=object)
+    index = Index([f"bar_{i}" for i in range(30)])
     return Series(data, index=index, name="objects", dtype=object)
 
 
@@ -890,8 +890,8 @@ def int_frame() -> DataFrame:
     """
     return DataFrame(
         np.ones((30, 4), dtype=np.int64),
-        index=Index([f"foo_{i}" for i in range(30)], dtype=object),
-        columns=Index(list("ABCD"), dtype=object),
+        index=Index([f"foo_{i}" for i in range(30)]),
+        columns=Index(list("ABCD")),
     )
 
 

pandas/tests/series/indexing/test_setitem.py

@@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ def test_setitem_with_expansion_type_promotion(self):
         expected = Series([Timestamp("2016-01-01"), 3.0, "foo"], index=["a", "b", "c"])
         tm.assert_series_equal(ser, expected)
 
-    @pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
     def test_setitem_not_contained(self, string_series):
         # set item that's not contained
         ser = string_series.copy()