BUG: ValueError is mistakenly raised if a numpy array is assigned to a pd.Series of dtype=object and both have the same length

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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

pd.__version__ #  '1.1.3'
pdseries = pd.Series(index=[1,2,3,4], dtype=object)
pdseries.loc[1] = np.zeros(100)  # this works fine
pdseries.loc[3] = np.zeros(4)     # this raises a value error because len(pdseries)==len(np.zeros(4))

TypeError: only size-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/daniel/.conda/envs/production_system/lib/python3.7/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 2878, in run_code
exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
File "", line 1, in
pdseries.loc[3] = np.zeros(4)
File "/Users/daniel/.conda/envs/production_system/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py", line 670, in setitem
iloc._setitem_with_indexer(indexer, value)
File "/Users/daniel/.conda/envs/production_system/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py", line 1802, in _setitem_with_indexer
self.obj._mgr = self.obj._mgr.setitem(indexer=indexer, value=value)
File "/Users/daniel/.conda/envs/production_system/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 534, in setitem
return self.apply("setitem", indexer=indexer, value=value)
File "/Users/daniel/.conda/envs/production_system/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 406, in apply
applied = getattr(b, f)(**kwargs)
File "/Users/daniel/.conda/envs/production_system/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py", line 887, in setitem
values = values.astype(arr_value.dtype, copy=False)
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.

Problem description

It is possible to assign (numpy) arrays to elements of pandas.Series ofd type=object. Unfortunately, in case the array is of the same size as the Series a ValueError is raised.

How can one avoid this error?

Expected Output

The interesting thing is that the assignment takes place as expected:
In[42]: pdseries
Out[42]:
1 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ...
2 NaN
3 [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
4 NaN

One might argue that a warning could be useful but an error is misleading and tricky to debug.

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : db08276
python : 3.7.8.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Darwin
OS-release : 19.6.0
Version : Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Mon Aug 31 22:12:52 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.141.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64
machine : x86_64
processor : i386
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : None.UTF-8
pandas : 1.1.3
numpy : 1.19.2
pytz : 2020.1
dateutil : 2.8.1
pip : 20.2.4
setuptools : 49.6.0.post20201009
Cython : 0.29.21
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : None
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : 2.8.6 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64)
jinja2 : 2.11.2
IPython : 5.8.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : None
bottleneck : None
fsspec : None
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.3.2
numexpr : 2.7.1
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pytables : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.2.1
sqlalchemy : 1.3.20
tables : 3.6.1
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlwt : None
numba : None

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With pd.version '1.0.5' the bug does not occur.

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xref #37486