diff --git a/pandas/tests/arithmetic/common.py b/pandas/tests/arithmetic/common.py
index 386490623dc47..649ad562307c0 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/arithmetic/common.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/arithmetic/common.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     DataFrame,
     Index,
     Series,
-    array as pd_array,
+    array,
 )
 import pandas._testing as tm
 from pandas.core.arrays import PandasArray
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def assert_invalid_comparison(left, right, box):
     # Not for tznaive-tzaware comparison
 
     # Note: not quite the same as how we do this for tm.box_expected
-    xbox = box if box not in [Index, pd_array] else np.array
+    xbox = box if box not in [Index, array] else np.array
 
     def xbox2(x):
         # Eventually we'd like this to be tighter, but for now we'll
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_constructors.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_constructors.py
index 4342f1960f178..8da7af5c4d86e 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_constructors.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_constructors.py
@@ -1216,14 +1216,14 @@ def __len__(self, n):
     def test_constructor_stdlib_array(self):
         # GH 4297
         # support Array
-        import array
+        from array import array as stdlib_array
 
-        result = DataFrame({"A": array.array("i", range(10))})
+        result = DataFrame({"A": stdlib_array("i", range(10))})
         expected = DataFrame({"A": list(range(10))})
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected, check_dtype=False)
 
         expected = DataFrame([list(range(10)), list(range(10))])
-        result = DataFrame([array.array("i", range(10)), array.array("i", range(10))])
+        result = DataFrame([stdlib_array("i", range(10)), stdlib_array("i", range(10))])
         tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected, check_dtype=False)
 
     def test_constructor_range(self):
diff --git a/pandas/tests/indexing/test_iloc.py b/pandas/tests/indexing/test_iloc.py
index ad5f54174952d..c28674380a839 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/indexing/test_iloc.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/indexing/test_iloc.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     Index,
     NaT,
     Series,
-    array as pd_array,
+    array,
     concat,
     date_range,
     isna,
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ def test_iloc_setitem_fullcol_categorical(self, indexer, key):
         else:
             assert cat[0] != "gamma"
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("box", [pd_array, Series])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("box", [array, Series])
     def test_iloc_setitem_ea_inplace(self, frame_or_series, box):
         # GH#38952 Case with not setting a full column
         #  IntegerArray without NAs
-        arr = pd_array([1, 2, 3, 4])
+        arr = array([1, 2, 3, 4])
         obj = frame_or_series(arr.to_numpy("i8"))
         values = obj.values
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/series/methods/test_view.py b/pandas/tests/series/methods/test_view.py
index f0069cdb9b79c..818023c01e4e7 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/series/methods/test_view.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/series/methods/test_view.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from pandas import (
     Index,
     Series,
-    array as pd_array,
+    array,
     date_range,
 )
 import pandas._testing as tm
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def test_view_tz(self):
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "second", ["m8[ns]", "M8[ns]", "M8[ns, US/Central]", "period[D]"]
     )
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("box", [Series, Index, pd_array])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("box", [Series, Index, array])
     def test_view_between_datetimelike(self, first, second, box):
 
         dti = date_range("2016-01-01", periods=3)
diff --git a/scripts/check_for_inconsistent_pandas_namespace.py b/scripts/check_for_inconsistent_pandas_namespace.py
index 87070e819b4a0..c84a92324f976 100644
--- a/scripts/check_for_inconsistent_pandas_namespace.py
+++ b/scripts/check_for_inconsistent_pandas_namespace.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 ERROR_MESSAGE = "Found both `pd.{name}` and `{name}` in {path}"
 EXCLUDE = {
-    "array",  # `import array` and `pd.array` should both be allowed
     "eval",  # built-in, different from `pd.eval`
     "np",  # pd.np is deprecated but still tested
 }