DEPR/API: Non-ns precision in Index constructors

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst

@@ -1159,6 +1159,7 @@ Other API Changes
 - :meth:`CategoricalIndex.reindex` now raises a ``ValueError`` if the target index is non-unique and not equal to the current index. It previously only raised if the target index was not of a categorical dtype (:issue:`23963`).
 - :func:`Series.to_list` and :func:`Index.to_list` are now aliases of ``Series.tolist`` respectively ``Index.tolist`` (:issue:`8826`)
 - The result of ``SparseSeries.unstack`` is now a :class:`DataFrame` with sparse values, rather than a :class:`SparseDataFrame` (:issue:`24372`).
+- :class:`DatetimeIndex` and :class:`TimedeltaIndex` no longer ignore the dtype precision. Passing a non-nanosecond resolution dtype will raise a ``ValueError`` (:issue:`24753`)
 
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.api.extension:
@@ -1259,6 +1260,7 @@ Deprecations
 - :meth:`Series.nonzero` is deprecated and will be removed in a future version (:issue:`18262`)
 - Passing an integer to :meth:`Series.fillna` and :meth:`DataFrame.fillna` with ``timedelta64[ns]`` dtypes is deprecated, will raise ``TypeError`` in a future version.  Use ``obj.fillna(pd.Timedelta(...))`` instead (:issue:`24694`)
 - ``Series.cat.categorical``, ``Series.cat.name`` and ``Sersies.cat.index`` have been deprecated. Use the attributes on ``Series.cat`` or ``Series`` directly. (:issue:`24751`).
+- Passing a dtype without a precision like ``np.dtype('datetime64')`` or ``timedelta64`` to :class:`DatetimeIndex` and :class:`TimedeltaIndex` is now deprecated. Use the nanosecond-precision dtype instead (:issue:`24753`).
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.deprecations.datetimelike_int_ops:
 

pandas/core/arrays/datetimes.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from datetime import datetime, time, timedelta
+import textwrap
 import warnings
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -1986,6 +1987,16 @@ def _validate_dt64_dtype(dtype):
     """
     if dtype is not None:
         dtype = pandas_dtype(dtype)
+
+        if isinstance(dtype, np.dtype) and dtype == np.dtype("M8"):
+            # no precision, warn
+            dtype = _NS_DTYPE
+            msg = textwrap.dedent("""\
+                Passing in 'datetime64' dtype with no precision is deprecated
+                and will raise in a future version. Please pass in
+                'datetime64[ns]' instead.""")
+            warnings.warn(msg, FutureWarning, stacklevel=5)
+
         if ((isinstance(dtype, np.dtype) and dtype != _NS_DTYPE)
                 or not isinstance(dtype, (np.dtype, DatetimeTZDtype))):
             raise ValueError("Unexpected value for 'dtype': '{dtype}'. "

pandas/core/arrays/timedeltas.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from __future__ import division
 
 from datetime import timedelta
+import textwrap
 import warnings
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -160,16 +161,8 @@ def __init__(self, values, dtype=_TD_DTYPE, freq=None, copy=False):
             #  nanosecond UTC (or tz-naive) unix timestamps
             values = values.view(_TD_DTYPE)
 
-        if values.dtype != _TD_DTYPE:
-            raise TypeError(_BAD_DTYPE.format(dtype=values.dtype))
-
-        try:
-            dtype_mismatch = dtype != _TD_DTYPE
-        except TypeError:
-            raise TypeError(_BAD_DTYPE.format(dtype=dtype))
-        else:
-            if dtype_mismatch:
-                raise TypeError(_BAD_DTYPE.format(dtype=dtype))
+        _validate_td64_dtype(values.dtype)
+        dtype = _validate_td64_dtype(dtype)
 
         if freq == "infer":
             msg = (
@@ -204,9 +197,8 @@ def _simple_new(cls, values, freq=None, dtype=_TD_DTYPE):
     @classmethod
     def _from_sequence(cls, data, dtype=_TD_DTYPE, copy=False,
                        freq=None, unit=None):
-        if dtype != _TD_DTYPE:
-            raise ValueError("Only timedelta64[ns] dtype is valid.")
-
+        if dtype:
+            _validate_td64_dtype(dtype)
         freq, freq_infer = dtl.maybe_infer_freq(freq)
 
         data, inferred_freq = sequence_to_td64ns(data, copy=copy, unit=unit)
@@ -997,6 +989,30 @@ def objects_to_td64ns(data, unit="ns", errors="raise"):
     return result.view('timedelta64[ns]')
 
 
+def _validate_td64_dtype(dtype):
+    try:
+        if dtype == np.dtype("timedelta64"):
+            dtype = _TD_DTYPE
+            msg = textwrap.dedent("""\
+                Passing in 'timedelta' dtype with no precision is deprecated
+                and will raise in a future version. Please pass in
+                'timedelta64[ns]' instead.""")
+            warnings.warn(msg, FutureWarning, stacklevel=4)
+    except TypeError:
+        # extension dtype
+        pass
+
+    try:
+        dtype_mismatch = dtype != _TD_DTYPE
+    except TypeError:
+        raise ValueError(_BAD_DTYPE.format(dtype=dtype))
+    else:
+        if dtype_mismatch:
+            raise ValueError(_BAD_DTYPE.format(dtype=dtype))
+
+    return dtype
+
+
 def _generate_regular_range(start, end, periods, offset):
     stride = offset.nanos
     if periods is None:

pandas/core/indexes/base.py

@@ -311,10 +311,14 @@ def __new__(cls, data=None, dtype=None, copy=False, name=None,
         elif (is_timedelta64_dtype(data) or
               (dtype is not None and is_timedelta64_dtype(dtype))):
             from pandas import TimedeltaIndex
-            result = TimedeltaIndex(data, copy=copy, name=name, **kwargs)
-            if dtype is not None and _o_dtype == dtype:
-                return Index(result.to_pytimedelta(), dtype=_o_dtype)
+            if dtype is not None and is_dtype_equal(_o_dtype, dtype):
+                # Note we can pass copy=False because the .astype below
+                #  will always make a copy
+                result = TimedeltaIndex(data, copy=False, name=name, **kwargs)
+                return result.astype(object)
             else:
+                result = TimedeltaIndex(data, copy=copy, name=name,
+                                        dtype=dtype, **kwargs)
                 return result
 
         elif is_period_dtype(data) and not is_object_dtype(dtype):

pandas/tests/arrays/test_timedeltas.py

@@ -23,18 +23,18 @@ def test_non_array_raises(self):
             TimedeltaArray([1, 2, 3])
 
     def test_other_type_raises(self):
-        with pytest.raises(TypeError,
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError,
                            match="dtype bool cannot be converted"):
             TimedeltaArray(np.array([1, 2, 3], dtype='bool'))
 
     def test_incorrect_dtype_raises(self):
         # TODO: why TypeError for 'category' but ValueError for i8?
-        with pytest.raises(TypeError,
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError,
                            match=r'category cannot be converted '
                                  r'to timedelta64\[ns\]'):
             TimedeltaArray(np.array([1, 2, 3], dtype='i8'), dtype='category')
 
-        with pytest.raises(TypeError,
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError,
                            match=r"dtype int64 cannot be converted "
                                  r"to timedelta64\[ns\]"):
             TimedeltaArray(np.array([1, 2, 3], dtype='i8'),
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def test_copy(self):
 
 class TestTimedeltaArray(object):
     def test_from_sequence_dtype(self):
-        msg = r"Only timedelta64\[ns\] dtype is valid"
+        msg = "dtype .*object.* cannot be converted to timedelta64"
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=msg):
             TimedeltaArray._from_sequence([], dtype=object)
 

pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_construction.py

@@ -634,6 +634,23 @@ def test_construction_with_nat_and_tzlocal(self):
         expected = DatetimeIndex([Timestamp('2018', tz=tz), pd.NaT])
         tm.assert_index_equal(result, expected)
 
+    def test_constructor_no_precision_warns(self):
+        # GH-24753, GH-24739
+        expected = pd.DatetimeIndex(['2000'], dtype='datetime64[ns]')
+
+        # we set the stacklevel for DatetimeIndex
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
+            result = pd.DatetimeIndex(['2000'], dtype='datetime64')
+        tm.assert_index_equal(result, expected)
+
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning, check_stacklevel=False):
+            result = pd.Index(['2000'], dtype='datetime64')
+        tm.assert_index_equal(result, expected)
+
+    def test_constructor_wrong_precision_raises(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            pd.DatetimeIndex(['2000'], dtype='datetime64[us]')
+
 
 class TestTimeSeries(object):
 

pandas/tests/indexes/timedeltas/test_construction.py

@@ -180,3 +180,20 @@ def test_constructor_name(self):
         # GH10025
         idx2 = TimedeltaIndex(idx, name='something else')
         assert idx2.name == 'something else'
+
+    def test_constructor_no_precision_warns(self):
+        # GH-24753, GH-24739
+        expected = pd.TimedeltaIndex(['2000'], dtype='timedelta64[ns]')
+
+        # we set the stacklevel for DatetimeIndex
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
+            result = pd.TimedeltaIndex(['2000'], dtype='timedelta64')
+        tm.assert_index_equal(result, expected)
+
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning, check_stacklevel=False):
+            result = pd.Index(['2000'], dtype='timedelta64')
+        tm.assert_index_equal(result, expected)
+
+    def test_constructor_wrong_precision_raises(self):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            pd.TimedeltaIndex(['2000'], dtype='timedelta64[us]')