Method _empty

pandas/core/arrays/string_.py:809–812

(cls, shape, dtype)

    @classmethod
    def _empty(cls, shape, dtype) -> StringArray:
        values = np.empty(shape, dtype=object)
        values[:] = dtype.na_value
        return cls(values, dtype=dtype).astype(dtype, copy=False)

    def __arrow_array__(self, type=None):
        """