PandasArray.__setitem__ fails for strings

[TomAugspurger]

In [3]: t = pd.array(['a', 'b', 'c'])

In [4]: t[0] = 't'
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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-7d1c8d6d2e6a> in <module>
----> 1 t[0] = 't'

~/sandbox/pandas/pandas/core/arrays/numpy_.py in __setitem__(self, key, value)
    237
    238         values = self._ndarray
--> 239         t = np.result_type(value, values)
    240         if t != self._ndarray.dtype:
    241             values = values.astype(t, casting="safe")

<__array_function__ internals> in result_type(*args, **kwargs)

TypeError: data type "t" not understood