class_docstr: Extension array for string data.
  
  .. warning::
  
     StringArray is considered experimental. The implementation and
     parts of the API may change without warning.
  
  Parameters
  ----------
  values : array-like
      The array of data.
  
      .. warning::
  
         Currently, this expects an object-dtype ndarray
         where the elements are Python strings
         or nan-likes (``None``, ``np.nan``, ``NA``).
         This may change without warning in the future. Use
         :meth:`pandas.array` with ``dtype="string"`` for a stable way of
         creating a `StringArray` from any sequence.
  
      .. versionchanged:: 1.5.0
  
         StringArray now accepts array-likes containing
         nan-likes(``None``, ``np.nan``) for the ``values`` parameter
         in addition to strings and :attr:`pandas.NA`
  
  copy : bool, default False
      Whether to copy the array of data.
  
  Attributes
  ----------
  None
  
  Methods
  -------
  None
  
  See Also
  --------
  :func:`pandas.array`
      The recommended function for creating a StringArray.
  Series.str
      The string methods are available on Series backed by
      a StringArray.
  
  Notes
  -----
  StringArray returns a BooleanArray for comparison methods.
  
  Examples
  --------
  >>> pd.array(['This is', 'some text', None, 'data.'], dtype="string")
  <StringArray>
  ['This is', 'some text', <NA>, 'data.']
  Length: 4, dtype: string
  
  Unlike arrays instantiated with ``dtype="object"``, ``StringArray``
  will convert the values to strings.
  
  >>> pd.array(['1', 1], dtype="object")
  <PandasArray>
  ['1', 1]
  Length: 2, dtype: object
  >>> pd.array(['1', 1], dtype="string")
  <StringArray>
  ['1', '1']
  Length: 2, dtype: string
  
  However, instantiating StringArrays directly with non-strings will raise an error.
  
  For comparison methods, `StringArray` returns a :class:`pandas.BooleanArray`:
  
  >>> pd.array(["a", None, "c"], dtype="string") == "a"
  <BooleanArray>
  [True, <NA>, False]
  Length: 3, dtype: boolean
code: def __setitem__(self, key, value):
      value = extract_array(value, extract_numpy=True)
      if isinstance(value, type(self)):
          # extract_array doesn't extract PandasArray subclasses
          value = value._ndarray
  
      key = check_array_indexer(self, key)
      scalar_key = lib.is_scalar(key)
      scalar_value = lib.is_scalar(value)
      if scalar_key and not scalar_value:
          raise ValueError("setting an array element with a sequence.")
  
      # validate new items
      if scalar_value:
          if isna(value):
              value = libmissing.NA
          elif not isinstance(value, str):
              raise TypeError(
                  f"Cannot set non-string value '{value}' into a StringArray."
              )
      else:
          if not is_array_like(value):
              value = np.asarray(value, dtype=object)
          if len(value) and not lib.is_string_array(value, skipna=True):
              raise TypeError("Must provide strings.")
  
          mask = isna(value)
          if mask.any():
              value = value.copy()
              value[isna(value)] = libmissing.NA
  
      super().__setitem__(key, value)
  
imports: from __future__ import annotations
  from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Literal
  import numpy
  from pandas._config import get_option
  from pandas._libs import lib, missing
  from pandas._libs.arrays import NDArrayBacked
  from pandas._typing import AxisInt, Dtype, Scalar, npt, type_t
  from pandas.compat import pa_version_under7p0
  from pandas.compat.numpy import function
  from pandas.util._decorators import doc
  from pandas.core.dtypes.base import ExtensionDtype, StorageExtensionDtype, register_extension_dtype
  from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_array_like, is_bool_dtype, is_dtype_equal, is_integer_dtype, is_object_dtype, is_string_dtype, pandas_dtype
  from pandas.core import ops
  from pandas.core.array_algos import masked_reductions
  from pandas.core.arrays import ExtensionArray, FloatingArray, IntegerArray
  from pandas.core.arrays.floating import FloatingDtype
  from pandas.core.arrays.integer import IntegerDtype
  from pandas.core.arrays.numpy_ import PandasArray
  from pandas.core.construction import extract_array
  from pandas.core.indexers import check_array_indexer
  from pandas.core.missing import isna
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