Revert "CI temporarily pin numpy" (#50706)

* Revert "CI: Temporarily pin numpy (#50356)"

This reverts commit f31da23.

* maybe fixup test collection

* remove np_version_gte1p24

Co-authored-by: MarcoGorelli <>

Author: MarcoGorelli

asv_bench/asv.conf.json

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     // pip (with all the conda available packages installed first,
     // followed by the pip installed packages).
     "matrix": {
-        "numpy": ["1.23.5"],  // https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/50356
+        "numpy": [],
         "Cython": ["0.29.32"],
         "matplotlib": [],
         "sqlalchemy": [],

ci/deps/actions-310-numpydev.yaml

@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ dependencies:
     - "cython"
     - "--extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly/simple"
     - "--pre"
-    - "numpy<1.24"
+    - "numpy"
     - "scipy"

ci/deps/actions-310.yaml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # required dependencies
   - python-dateutil
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - pytz
 
   # optional dependencies

ci/deps/actions-38-downstream_compat.yaml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # required dependencies
   - python-dateutil
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - pytz
 
   # optional dependencies

ci/deps/actions-38.yaml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # required dependencies
   - python-dateutil
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - pytz
 
   # optional dependencies

ci/deps/actions-39.yaml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # required dependencies
   - python-dateutil
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - pytz
 
   # optional dependencies

ci/deps/actions-pypy-38.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ dependencies:
   - hypothesis>=6.34.2
 
   # required
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - python-dateutil
   - pytz

ci/deps/circle-38-arm64.yaml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # required dependencies
   - python-dateutil
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - pytz
 
   # optional dependencies

environment.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dependencies:
 
   # required dependencies
   - python-dateutil
-  - numpy<1.24
+  - numpy
   - pytz
 
   # optional dependencies

pandas/util/_test_decorators.py

@@ -95,6 +95,13 @@ def safe_import(mod_name: str, min_version: str | None = None):
             mod = __import__(mod_name)
         except ImportError:
             return False
+        except SystemError:
+            # TODO: numba is incompatible with numpy 1.24+.
+            # Once that's fixed, this block should be removed.
+            if mod_name == "numba":
+                return False
+            else:
+                raise
 
     if not min_version:
         return mod