ENH: Implement str.r/split for ArrowDtype

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.1.rst

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Bug fixes
 
 Other
 ~~~~~
+- Implemented :meth:`Series.str.split` and :meth:`Series.str.rsplit` for :class:`ArrowDtype` with ``pyarrow.string`` (:issue:`52401`)
 - :class:`DataFrame` created from empty dicts had :attr:`~DataFrame.columns`  of dtype ``object``. It is now a :class:`RangeIndex` (:issue:`52404`)
 - :class:`Series` created from empty dicts had :attr:`~Series.index`  of dtype ``object``. It is now a :class:`RangeIndex` (:issue:`52404`)
 

pandas/core/arrays/arrow/array.py

@@ -2025,15 +2025,25 @@ def _str_rfind(self, sub, start: int = 0, end=None):
         )
 
     def _str_split(
-        self, pat=None, n=-1, expand: bool = False, regex: bool | None = None
+        self,
+        pat: str | None = None,
+        n: int | None = -1,
+        expand: bool = False,
+        regex: bool | None = None,
     ):
-        raise NotImplementedError(
-            "str.split not supported with pd.ArrowDtype(pa.string())."
-        )
+        if n in {-1, 0}:
+            n = None
+        if regex:
+            split_func = pc.split_pattern_regex
+        else:
+            split_func = pc.split_pattern
+        return type(self)(split_func(self._pa_array, pat, max_splits=n))
 
-    def _str_rsplit(self, pat=None, n=-1):
-        raise NotImplementedError(
-            "str.rsplit not supported with pd.ArrowDtype(pa.string())."
+    def _str_rsplit(self, pat: str | None = None, n: int | None = -1):
+        if n in {-1, 0}:
+            n = None
+        return type(self)(
+            pc.split_pattern(self._pa_array, pat, max_splits=n, reverse=True)
         )
 
     def _str_translate(self, table):

pandas/core/strings/accessor.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 )
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import isna
 
+from pandas.core.arrays.arrow.dtype import ArrowDtype
 from pandas.core.base import NoNewAttributesMixin
 from pandas.core.construction import extract_array
 
@@ -267,27 +268,39 @@ def _wrap_result(
             # infer from ndim if expand is not specified
             expand = result.ndim != 1
 
-        elif (
-            expand is True
-            and is_object_dtype(result)
-            and not isinstance(self._orig, ABCIndex)
-        ):
+        elif expand is True and not isinstance(self._orig, ABCIndex):
             # required when expand=True is explicitly specified
             # not needed when inferred
-
-            def cons_row(x):
-                if is_list_like(x):
-                    return x
-                else:
-                    return [x]
-
-            result = [cons_row(x) for x in result]
-            if result and not self._is_string:
-                # propagate nan values to match longest sequence (GH 18450)
-                max_len = max(len(x) for x in result)
-                result = [
-                    x * max_len if len(x) == 0 or x[0] is np.nan else x for x in result
-                ]
+            if isinstance(result.dtype, ArrowDtype):
+                import pyarrow as pa
+
+                from pandas.core.arrays.arrow.array import ArrowExtensionArray
+
+                max_len = pa.compute.max(
+                    result._pa_array.combine_chunks().value_lengths()
+                ).as_py()
+                if result.isna().any():
+                    result._pa_array = result._pa_array.fill_null([None] * max_len)
+                result = {
+                    i: ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array(res))
+                    for i, res in enumerate(zip(*result.tolist()))
+                }
+            elif is_object_dtype(result):
+
+                def cons_row(x):
+                    if is_list_like(x):
+                        return x
+                    else:
+                        return [x]
+
+                result = [cons_row(x) for x in result]
+                if result and not self._is_string:
+                    # propagate nan values to match longest sequence (GH 18450)
+                    max_len = max(len(x) for x in result)
+                    result = [
+                        x * max_len if len(x) == 0 or x[0] is np.nan else x
+                        for x in result
+                    ]
 
         if not isinstance(expand, bool):
             raise ValueError("expand must be True or False")

pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py

@@ -2067,6 +2067,62 @@ def test_str_removesuffix(val):
     tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
 
 
+def test_str_split():
+    # GH 52401
+    ser = pd.Series(["a1cbcb", "a2cbcb", None], dtype=ArrowDtype(pa.string()))
+    result = ser.str.split("c")
+    expected = pd.Series(
+        ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array([["a1", "b", "b"], ["a2", "b", "b"], None]))
+    )
+    tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+    result = ser.str.split("c", n=1)
+    expected = pd.Series(
+        ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array([["a1", "bcb"], ["a2", "bcb"], None]))
+    )
+    tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+    result = ser.str.split("[1-2]", regex=True)
+    expected = pd.Series(
+        ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array([["a", "cbcb"], ["a", "cbcb"], None]))
+    )
+    tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+    result = ser.str.split("[1-2]", regex=True, expand=True)
+    expected = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            0: ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array(["a", "a", None])),
+            1: ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array(["cbcb", "cbcb", None])),
+        }
+    )
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+def test_str_rsplit():
+    # GH 52401
+    ser = pd.Series(["a1cbcb", "a2cbcb", None], dtype=ArrowDtype(pa.string()))
+    result = ser.str.rsplit("c")
+    expected = pd.Series(
+        ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array([["a1", "b", "b"], ["a2", "b", "b"], None]))
+    )
+    tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+    result = ser.str.rsplit("c", n=1)
+    expected = pd.Series(
+        ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array([["a1cb", "b"], ["a2cb", "b"], None]))
+    )
+    tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+    result = ser.str.rsplit("c", n=1, expand=True)
+    expected = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            0: ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array(["a1cb", "a2cb", None])),
+            1: ArrowExtensionArray(pa.array(["b", "b", None])),
+        }
+    )
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "method, args",
     [
@@ -2082,8 +2138,6 @@ def test_str_removesuffix(val):
         ["rindex", ("abc",)],
         ["normalize", ("abc",)],
         ["rfind", ("abc",)],
-        ["split", ()],
-        ["rsplit", ()],
         ["translate", ("abc",)],
         ["wrap", ("abc",)],
     ],