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@rhshadrach rhshadrach added this to the 2.3.3 milestone Aug 24, 2025
@rhshadrach rhshadrach added the Strings String extension data type and string data label Aug 24, 2025
@@ -315,6 +315,37 @@ the :meth:`~pandas.Series.str.decode` method now has a ``dtype`` parameter to be
able to specify object dtype instead of the default of string dtype for this use
case.

:meth:`Series.values` now returns an :class:`~pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionArray`
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should we be more specific that this is a StringArray?

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small comment, otherwise LGTM

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API: return value of .values for Series with the future string dtype (numpy array vs extension array)
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