[backport 2.3.x] TST (string dtype): resolve all easy xfails in pandas/tests/groupby (pandas-dev#60314) (pandas-dev#60317)

TST (string dtype): resolve all easy xfails in pandas/tests/groupby (pandas-dev#60314)

(cherry picked from commit c4a2026)

Author: jorisvandenbossche

pandas/tests/groupby/aggregate/test_aggregate.py

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 from pandas.errors import SpecificationError
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_integer_dtype
@@ -335,12 +333,11 @@ def aggfun_1(ser):
     assert len(result) == 0
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_wrap_agg_out(three_group):
     grouped = three_group.groupby(["A", "B"])
 
     def func(ser):
-        if ser.dtype == object:
+        if ser.dtype in (object, "string"):
             raise TypeError("Test error message")
         return ser.sum()
 
@@ -1101,7 +1098,6 @@ def test_lambda_named_agg(func):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_aggregate_mixed_types():
     # GH 16916
     df = DataFrame(
@@ -1113,7 +1109,7 @@ def test_aggregate_mixed_types():
     expected = DataFrame(
         expected_data,
         index=Index([2, "group 1"], dtype="object", name="grouping"),
-        columns=Index(["X", "Y", "Z"], dtype="object"),
+        columns=Index(["X", "Y", "Z"]),
     )
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 

pandas/tests/groupby/aggregate/test_cython.py

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
     is_float_dtype,
     is_integer_dtype,
@@ -95,7 +93,6 @@ def test_cython_agg_boolean():
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_cython_agg_nothing_to_agg():
     frame = DataFrame(
         {"a": np.random.default_rng(2).integers(0, 5, 50), "b": ["foo", "bar"] * 25}
@@ -111,7 +108,9 @@ def test_cython_agg_nothing_to_agg():
 
     result = frame[["b"]].groupby(frame["a"]).mean(numeric_only=True)
     expected = DataFrame(
-        [], index=frame["a"].sort_values().drop_duplicates(), columns=[]
+        [],
+        index=frame["a"].sort_values().drop_duplicates(),
+        columns=Index([], dtype="str"),
     )
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 

pandas/tests/groupby/aggregate/test_other.py

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 from pandas.errors import SpecificationError
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -308,7 +306,6 @@ def test_series_agg_multikey():
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_series_agg_multi_pure_python():
     data = DataFrame(
         {
@@ -358,7 +355,8 @@ def test_series_agg_multi_pure_python():
     )
 
     def bad(x):
-        assert len(x.values.base) > 0
+        if isinstance(x.values, np.ndarray):
+            assert len(x.values.base) > 0
         return "foo"
 
     result = data.groupby(["A", "B"]).agg(bad)

pandas/tests/groupby/methods/test_quantile.py

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
     DataFrame,
@@ -170,11 +168,10 @@ def test_groupby_quantile_with_arraylike_q_and_int_columns(frame_size, groupby,
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_quantile_raises():
     df = DataFrame([["foo", "a"], ["foo", "b"], ["foo", "c"]], columns=["key", "val"])
 
-    msg = "dtype 'object' does not support operation 'quantile'"
+    msg = "dtype '(object|str)' does not support operation 'quantile'"
     with pytest.raises(TypeError, match=msg):
         df.groupby("key").quantile()
 

pandas/tests/groupby/methods/test_size.py

@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ def test_size_series_masked_type_returns_Int64(dtype):
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
 
+# TODO(infer_string) in case the column is object dtype, it should preserve that dtype
+# for the result's index
 @pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)", strict=False)
 def test_size_strings(any_string_dtype):
     # GH#55627

pandas/tests/groupby/test_categorical.py

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
     Categorical,
@@ -340,15 +338,18 @@ def test_apply(ordered):
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)", strict=False)
-def test_observed(observed):
+def test_observed(request, using_infer_string, observed):
     # multiple groupers, don't re-expand the output space
     # of the grouper
     # gh-14942 (implement)
     # gh-10132 (back-compat)
     # gh-8138 (back-compat)
     # gh-8869
 
+    if using_infer_string and not observed:
+        # TODO(infer_string) this fails with filling the string column with 0
+        request.applymarker(pytest.mark.xfail(reason="TODO(infer_string)"))
+
     cat1 = Categorical(["a", "a", "b", "b"], categories=["a", "b", "z"], ordered=True)
     cat2 = Categorical(["c", "d", "c", "d"], categories=["c", "d", "y"], ordered=True)
     df = DataFrame({"A": cat1, "B": cat2, "values": [1, 2, 3, 4]})

pandas/tests/groupby/test_groupby.py

@@ -1617,7 +1617,6 @@ def test_groupby_two_group_keys_all_nan():
     assert result == {}
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_groupby_2d_malformed():
     d = DataFrame(index=range(2))
     d["group"] = ["g1", "g2"]
@@ -1626,7 +1625,7 @@ def test_groupby_2d_malformed():
     d["label"] = ["l1", "l2"]
     tmp = d.groupby(["group"]).mean(numeric_only=True)
     res_values = np.array([[0.0, 1.0], [0.0, 1.0]])
-    tm.assert_index_equal(tmp.columns, Index(["zeros", "ones"]))
+    tm.assert_index_equal(tmp.columns, Index(["zeros", "ones"], dtype=object))
     tm.assert_numpy_array_equal(tmp.values, res_values)
 
 
@@ -2711,7 +2710,6 @@ def test_groupby_all_nan_groups_drop():
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)", strict=False)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("numeric_only", [True, False])
 def test_groupby_empty_multi_column(as_index, numeric_only):
     # GH 15106 & GH 41998
@@ -2720,15 +2718,14 @@ def test_groupby_empty_multi_column(as_index, numeric_only):
     result = gb.sum(numeric_only=numeric_only)
     if as_index:
         index = MultiIndex([[], []], [[], []], names=["A", "B"])
-        columns = ["C"] if not numeric_only else []
+        columns = ["C"] if not numeric_only else Index([], dtype="str")
     else:
         index = RangeIndex(0)
         columns = ["A", "B", "C"] if not numeric_only else ["A", "B"]
     expected = DataFrame([], columns=columns, index=index)
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_groupby_aggregation_non_numeric_dtype():
     # GH #43108
     df = DataFrame(
@@ -2739,7 +2736,7 @@ def test_groupby_aggregation_non_numeric_dtype():
         {
             "v": [[1, 1], [10, 20]],
         },
-        index=Index(["M", "W"], dtype="object", name="MW"),
+        index=Index(["M", "W"], name="MW"),
     )
 
     gb = df.groupby(by=["MW"])

pandas/tests/groupby/test_groupby_dropna.py

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 from pandas.compat.pyarrow import pa_version_under10p1
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import na_value_for_dtype
@@ -99,7 +97,6 @@ def test_groupby_dropna_multi_index_dataframe_nan_in_two_groups(
     tm.assert_frame_equal(grouped, expected)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)", strict=False)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "dropna, idx, outputs",
     [
@@ -126,7 +123,7 @@ def test_groupby_dropna_normal_index_dataframe(dropna, idx, outputs):
     df = pd.DataFrame(df_list, columns=["a", "b", "c", "d"])
     grouped = df.groupby("a", dropna=dropna).sum()
 
-    expected = pd.DataFrame(outputs, index=pd.Index(idx, dtype="object", name="a"))
+    expected = pd.DataFrame(outputs, index=pd.Index(idx, name="a"))
 
     tm.assert_frame_equal(grouped, expected)
 

pandas/tests/groupby/test_grouping.py

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
     CategoricalIndex,
@@ -844,7 +842,6 @@ def test_groupby_empty(self):
         expected = ["name"]
         assert result == expected
 
-    @pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
     def test_groupby_level_index_value_all_na(self):
         # issue 20519
         df = DataFrame(
@@ -854,7 +851,7 @@ def test_groupby_level_index_value_all_na(self):
         expected = DataFrame(
             data=[],
             index=MultiIndex(
-                levels=[Index(["x"], dtype="object"), Index([], dtype="float64")],
+                levels=[Index(["x"], dtype="str"), Index([], dtype="float64")],
                 codes=[[], []],
                 names=["A", "B"],
             ),
@@ -989,12 +986,13 @@ def test_groupby_with_empty(self):
         grouped = series.groupby(grouper)
         assert next(iter(grouped), None) is None
 
-    @pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
     def test_groupby_with_single_column(self):
         df = DataFrame({"a": list("abssbab")})
         tm.assert_frame_equal(df.groupby("a").get_group("a"), df.iloc[[0, 5]])
         # GH 13530
-        exp = DataFrame(index=Index(["a", "b", "s"], name="a"), columns=[])
+        exp = DataFrame(
+            index=Index(["a", "b", "s"], name="a"), columns=Index([], dtype="str")
+        )
         tm.assert_frame_equal(df.groupby("a").count(), exp)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(df.groupby("a").sum(), exp)
 

pandas/tests/groupby/test_pipe.py

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 import numpy as np
-import pytest
-
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
 
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
@@ -11,7 +8,6 @@
 import pandas._testing as tm
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_pipe():
     # Test the pipe method of DataFrameGroupBy.
     # Issue #17871
@@ -39,7 +35,7 @@ def square(srs):
     # NDFrame.pipe methods
     result = df.groupby("A").pipe(f).pipe(square)
 
-    index = Index(["bar", "foo"], dtype="object", name="A")
+    index = Index(["bar", "foo"], name="A")
     expected = pd.Series([3.749306591013693, 6.717707873081384], name="B", index=index)
 
     tm.assert_series_equal(expected, result)