API: positional indexing with IntegerArray

[jorisvandenbossche]

Currently, the following does not work (but probably should):

In [12]: arr1 = pd.array([1, 2, 3]) 

In [13]: arr2 = pd.array([0, 2])

In [14]: arr1[arr2]  
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-14-1646c66d4d26> in <module>
----> 1 arr1[arr2]

~/scipy/pandas/pandas/core/arrays/integer.py in __getitem__(self, item)
    375             item = check_bool_array_indexer(self, item)
    376 
--> 377         return type(self)(self._data[item], self._mask[item])
    378 
    379     def _coerce_to_ndarray(self, dtype=None, na_value=lib._no_default):

IndexError: only integers, slices (`:`), ellipsis (`...`), numpy.newaxis (`None`) and integer or boolean arrays are valid indices

So that raises the following questions:

• This should probably simply work for the above case? (converting the IntegerArray to a numpy integer array, instead of object array, so numpy's indexing works) We might want to combine this with the boolean array checking?
• What if there are missing values? This should probably simply raise an error for now (which is what pandas 0.25 also does), although we could consider propagating an NA value as well, I think.

For Series, this seems to work partly. For iloc it works for the case without missing values. For __getitem__ you get the same error as above.