made suggested changes

Author: debnathshoham

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.0.rst

@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ Other enhancements
 
 Notable bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-These are bug fixes that might have notable behavior changes.
+- Bug in :meth:`pandas.cut` on :class:`Series` with duplicate indices (:issue:`42185`) and non-exact :meth:`pandas.CategoricalIndex` (:issue:`42425`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_140.notable_bug_fixes.notable_bug_fix1:
 

pandas/core/reshape/tile.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
     Timestamp,
 )
 from pandas._libs.lib import infer_dtype
-from pandas._typing import AnyArrayLike
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
     DT64NS_DTYPE,
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@
 
 
 def cut(
-    x: AnyArrayLike,
+    x,
     bins,
     right: bool = True,
     labels=None,
@@ -384,7 +383,7 @@ def qcut(
 
 
 def _bins_to_cuts(
-    x: AnyArrayLike,
+    x,
     bins: np.ndarray,
     right: bool = True,
     labels=None,
@@ -394,9 +393,6 @@ def _bins_to_cuts(
     duplicates: str = "raise",
     ordered: bool = True,
 ):
-    """
-    Allots bins to each item in `x`
-    """
     if not ordered and labels is None:
         raise ValueError("'labels' must be provided if 'ordered = False'")