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BUG: Passing pyarrow string array + dtype to pd.Series throws ArrowInvalidError on 2.0rc #51844

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd, pyarrow as pa

pd.Series(pa.array("the quick brown fox".split()), dtype="string")

# ArrowInvalid: Needed to copy 1 chunks with 0 nulls, but zero_copy_only was True

Issue Description

The example above errors when it probably shouldn't. Here's the example + traceback:

import pandas as pd, pyarrow as pa

pd.Series(pa.array("the quick brown fox".split()), dtype="string")
# ArrowInvalid: Needed to copy 1 chunks with 0 nulls, but zero_copy_only was True
traceback
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ArrowInvalid                              Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 3
      1 import pandas as pd, pyarrow as pa
----> 3 pd.Series(pa.array("the quick brown fox".split()), dtype="string")

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py:490, in Series.__init__(self, data, index, dtype, name, copy, fastpath)
    488         data = data.copy()
    489 else:
--> 490     data = sanitize_array(data, index, dtype, copy)
    492     manager = get_option("mode.data_manager")
    493     if manager == "block":

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/core/construction.py:565, in sanitize_array(data, index, dtype, copy, allow_2d)
    563     _sanitize_non_ordered(data)
    564     cls = dtype.construct_array_type()
--> 565     subarr = cls._from_sequence(data, dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
    567 # GH#846
    568 elif isinstance(data, np.ndarray):

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/core/arrays/string_.py:359, in StringArray._from_sequence(cls, scalars, dtype, copy)
    355     result[na_values] = libmissing.NA
    357 else:
    358     # convert non-na-likes to str, and nan-likes to StringDtype().na_value
--> 359     result = lib.ensure_string_array(scalars, na_value=libmissing.NA, copy=copy)
    361 # Manually creating new array avoids the validation step in the __init__, so is
    362 # faster. Refactor need for validation?
    363 new_string_array = cls.__new__(cls)

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/_libs/lib.pyx:712, in pandas._libs.lib.ensure_string_array()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/_libs/lib.pyx:754, in pandas._libs.lib.ensure_string_array()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/array.pxi:1475, in pyarrow.lib.Array.to_numpy()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/error.pxi:100, in pyarrow.lib.check_status()

ArrowInvalid: Needed to copy 1 chunks with 0 nulls, but zero_copy_only was True

This also occurs if dtype="string[pyarrow]":

pd.Series(pa.array("the quick brown fox".split()), dtype="string[pyarrow]")
# ArrowInvalid: Needed to copy 1 chunks with 0 nulls, but zero_copy_only was True
traceback
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ArrowInvalid                              Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[2], line 3
      1 import pandas as pd, pyarrow as pa
----> 3 pd.Series(pa.array("the quick brown fox".split()), dtype="string[pyarrow]")

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py:490, in Series.__init__(self, data, index, dtype, name, copy, fastpath)
    488         data = data.copy()
    489 else:
--> 490     data = sanitize_array(data, index, dtype, copy)
    492     manager = get_option("mode.data_manager")
    493     if manager == "block":

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/core/construction.py:565, in sanitize_array(data, index, dtype, copy, allow_2d)
    563     _sanitize_non_ordered(data)
    564     cls = dtype.construct_array_type()
--> 565     subarr = cls._from_sequence(data, dtype=dtype, copy=copy)
    567 # GH#846
    568 elif isinstance(data, np.ndarray):

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py:149, in ArrowStringArray._from_sequence(cls, scalars, dtype, copy)
    146     return cls(pa.array(result, mask=na_values, type=pa.string()))
    148 # convert non-na-likes to str
--> 149 result = lib.ensure_string_array(scalars, copy=copy)
    150 return cls(pa.array(result, type=pa.string(), from_pandas=True))

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/_libs/lib.pyx:712, in pandas._libs.lib.ensure_string_array()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pandas/_libs/lib.pyx:754, in pandas._libs.lib.ensure_string_array()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/array.pxi:1475, in pyarrow.lib.Array.to_numpy()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/pandas-2.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyarrow/error.pxi:100, in pyarrow.lib.check_status()

ArrowInvalid: Needed to copy 1 chunks with 0 nulls, but zero_copy_only was True

Expected Behavior

This probably shouldn't error, and instead result in a series of the appropriate dtype.

I would note that this seems to work on 1.5.3

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 1a2e300
python : 3.10.9.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Darwin
OS-release : 20.6.0
Version : Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Tue Jun 21 20:50:28 PDT 2022; root:xnu-7195.141.32~1/RELEASE_X86_64
machine : x86_64
processor : i386
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : None.UTF-8

pandas : 2.0.0rc0
numpy : 1.23.5
pytz : 2022.7.1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 67.4.0
pip : 23.0.1
Cython : None
pytest : 7.2.1
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 6.1.3
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.11.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.11.2
bottleneck : 1.3.7rc1
brotli : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2023.1.0
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.7.0
numba : 0.56.4
numexpr : 2.8.4
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 3.1.1
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 11.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : 2023.1.0
scipy : 1.10.1
snappy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : None
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

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