ENH: Preserve input start/end type in interval_range · Issue #57268 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

In [1]: import pandas as pd

In [2]: import numpy as np

In [3]: pd.interval_range(start=np.int8(1), end=np.int8(10)) Out[3]: IntervalIndex([(1, 2], (2, 3], (3, 4], (4, 5], (5, 6], (6, 7], (7, 8], (8, 9], (9, 10]], dtype='interval[int64, right]')

It would be ideal if the resulting dtype was 'interval[int8, right]'