ENH: Series.str.get_dummies() raise on string type (follow up to PR #59577)

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ Other enhancements
 - :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.transform`, :meth:`SeriesGroupBy.transform`, :meth:`DataFrameGroupBy.agg`, :meth:`SeriesGroupBy.agg`, :meth:`RollingGroupby.apply`, :meth:`ExpandingGroupby.apply`, :meth:`Rolling.apply`, :meth:`Expanding.apply`, :meth:`DataFrame.apply` with ``engine="numba"`` now supports positional arguments passed as kwargs (:issue:`58995`)
 - :meth:`Rolling.agg`, :meth:`Expanding.agg` and :meth:`ExponentialMovingWindow.agg` now accept :class:`NamedAgg` aggregations through ``**kwargs`` (:issue:`28333`)
 - :meth:`Series.map` can now accept kwargs to pass on to func (:issue:`59814`)
+- :meth:`Series.str.get_dummies` now accepts a  ``dtype`` parameter to specify the dtype of the resulting DataFrame (:issue:`47872`)
 - :meth:`pandas.concat` will raise a ``ValueError`` when ``ignore_index=True`` and ``keys`` is not ``None`` (:issue:`59274`)
-- :meth:`str.get_dummies` now accepts a  ``dtype`` parameter to specify the dtype of the resulting DataFrame (:issue:`47872`)
 - Implemented :meth:`Series.str.isascii` and :meth:`Series.str.isascii` (:issue:`59091`)
 - Multiplying two :class:`DateOffset` objects will now raise a ``TypeError`` instead of a ``RecursionError`` (:issue:`59442`)
 - Restore support for reading Stata 104-format and enable reading 103-format dta files (:issue:`58554`)

pandas/core/arrays/arrow/array.py

@@ -2531,8 +2531,6 @@ def _str_get_dummies(self, sep: str = "|", dtype: NpDtype | None = None):
         else:
             dummies_dtype = np.bool_
         dummies = np.zeros(n_rows * n_cols, dtype=dummies_dtype)
-        if dtype == str:
-            dummies[:] = False
         dummies[indices] = True
         dummies = dummies.reshape((n_rows, n_cols))
         result = type(self)(pa.array(list(dummies)))

pandas/core/strings/accessor.py

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     is_extension_array_dtype,
     is_integer,
     is_list_like,
+    is_numeric_dtype,
     is_object_dtype,
     is_re,
 )
@@ -2524,10 +2525,12 @@ def get_dummies(
         """
         from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
 
+        if dtype is not None and not (is_numeric_dtype(dtype) or is_bool_dtype(dtype)):
+            raise ValueError("Only numeric or boolean dtypes are supported for 'dtype'")
         # we need to cast to Series of strings as only that has all
         # methods available for making the dummies...
         result, name = self._data.array._str_get_dummies(sep, dtype)
-        if is_extension_array_dtype(dtype) or isinstance(dtype, ArrowDtype):
+        if is_extension_array_dtype(dtype):
             return self._wrap_result(
                 DataFrame(result, columns=name, dtype=dtype),
                 name=name,

pandas/core/strings/object_array.py

@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ def _str_get_dummies(self, sep: str = "|", dtype: NpDtype | None = None):
             dummies_dtype = _dtype
         else:
             dummies_dtype = np.bool_
-        dummies = np.empty((len(arr), len(tags2)), dtype=dummies_dtype)
+        dummies = np.empty((len(arr), len(tags2)), dtype=dummies_dtype, order="F")
 
         def _isin(test_elements: str, element: str) -> bool:
             return element in test_elements

pandas/tests/strings/test_get_dummies.py

@@ -1,24 +1,16 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas._config import using_string_dtype
-
 import pandas.util._test_decorators as td
 
 from pandas import (
-    ArrowDtype,
     DataFrame,
     Index,
     MultiIndex,
     Series,
     _testing as tm,
 )
 
-try:
-    import pyarrow as pa
-except ImportError:
-    pa = None
-
 
 def test_get_dummies(any_string_dtype):
     s = Series(["a|b", "a|c", np.nan], dtype=any_string_dtype)
@@ -99,32 +91,12 @@ def test_get_dummies_with_pyarrow_dtype(any_string_dtype, dtype):
 
 
 # GH#47872
-@pytest.mark.xfail(using_string_dtype(), reason="TODO(infer_string)")
 def test_get_dummies_with_str_dtype(any_string_dtype):
     s = Series(["a|b", "a|c", np.nan], dtype=any_string_dtype)
-    result = s.str.get_dummies("|", dtype=str)
-    expected = DataFrame(
-        [["T", "T", "F"], ["T", "F", "T"], ["F", "F", "F"]],
-        columns=list("abc"),
-        dtype=str,
-    )
-    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
-
 
-# GH#47872
-@td.skip_if_no("pyarrow")
-def test_get_dummies_with_pa_str_dtype(any_string_dtype):
-    import pyarrow as pa
+    msg = "Only numeric or boolean dtypes are supported for 'dtype'"
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
+        s.str.get_dummies("|", dtype=str)
 
-    s = Series(["a|b", "a|c", np.nan], dtype=any_string_dtype)
-    result = s.str.get_dummies("|", dtype=ArrowDtype(pa.string()))
-    expected = DataFrame(
-        [
-            ["true", "true", "false"],
-            ["true", "false", "true"],
-            ["false", "false", "false"],
-        ],
-        columns=list("abc"),
-        dtype=ArrowDtype(pa.string()),
-    )
-    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
+        s.str.get_dummies("|", dtype="datetime64[ns]")