review comments

Author: jreback

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.25.0.rst

@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ of ``object`` dtype. :attr:`Series.str` will now infer the dtype data *within* t
 ufuncs on Extension Dtype
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Operations with ``numpy`` ufuncs on Extension Arrays, including Sparse Dtypes will now coerce the
+Operations with ``numpy`` ufuncs on Extension Arrays, including Sparse Dtypes will now preserve the
 resulting dtypes to same as the input dtype; previously this would coerce to a dense dtype. (:issue:`23743`)
 
 .. ipython:: python

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 from io import StringIO
 from shutil import get_terminal_size
 from textwrap import dedent
-import warnings
 from typing import Optional, Tuple
+import warnings
 
 import numpy as np
 

pandas/tests/sparse/test_pivot.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 import pandas as pd
+from pandas import _np_version_under1p17
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
 
 
@@ -53,7 +54,8 @@ def test_pivot_table(self):
          'std',
          'var',
          'sem',
-         'median',
+         pytest.param('median', marks=pytest.mark.xfail(
+             not _np_version_under1p17, reason="fails on numpy > 1.16")),
          'first',
          'last'])
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('dropna', [True, False])