Description
Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible
In [1]: import pandas as pd; pd.__version__
Out[1]: '0.26.0.dev0+1348.g18bd98fde'
In [2]: from pandas.core.dtypes.cast import infer_dtype_from_scalar
In [3]: # this is fine
...: infer_dtype_from_scalar(pd.Interval(0, 1), pandas_dtype=False)
Out[3]: (numpy.object_, Interval(0, 1, closed='right'))
In [4]: # this is should infer interval[int64] as dtype
...: infer_dtype_from_scalar(pd.Interval(0, 1), pandas_dtype=True)
Out[4]: (numpy.object_, Interval(0, 1, closed='right'))Problem description
infer_dtype_from_scalar with pandas_dtype=True infers the dtype for Interval objects as np.object_ instead of as an IntervalDtype.
Expected Output
I'd expect Out[4] to have the dtype as IntervalDtype(subtype=np.int64).
Output of pd.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : 18bd98f
python : 3.7.3.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Darwin
OS-release : 18.6.0
machine : x86_64
processor : i386
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8
pandas : 0.26.0.dev0+1348.g18bd98fde
numpy : 1.16.4
pytz : 2019.1
dateutil : 2.8.0
pip : 19.1.1
setuptools : 41.6.0.post20191030
Cython : 0.29.13
pytest : 5.3.2
hypothesis : 4.23.6
sphinx : 1.8.5
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : 1.1.8
lxml.etree : 4.3.3
html5lib : 1.0.1
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 2.10.1
IPython : 7.5.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.7.1
bottleneck : 1.2.1
fastparquet : 0.3.0
gcsfs : None
lxml.etree : 4.3.3
matplotlib : 3.1.0
numexpr : 2.6.9
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 2.6.2
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 0.11.1
pytables : None
pytest : 5.3.2
s3fs : 0.2.1
scipy : 1.2.1
sqlalchemy : 1.3.4
tables : 3.5.2
xarray : 0.12.1
xlrd : 1.2.0
xlwt : 1.3.0
xlsxwriter : 1.1.8