class_docstr: Mixin class for StringArray, ArrowStringArray.
code: def tolist(self):
      if self.ndim > 1:
          return [x.tolist() for x in self]
      return list(self.to_numpy())
  
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
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling the BaseStringArray obj's underlying member method code with example usage: obj.tolist() and returns: list, unknown