.unique fails with read-only input. #19195
Description
Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible
arr = np.arange(10)
arr.setflags(write=False)
ser = pd.Series(arr, index=arr)
print ser.unique()...
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pandas/core/algorithms.py", line 364, in unique
uniques = table.unique(values)
File "pandas/_libs/hashtable_class_helper.pxi", line 973, in pandas._libs.hashtable.Int64HashTable.unique
File "stringsource", line 646, in View.MemoryView.memoryview_cwrapper
File "stringsource", line 347, in View.MemoryView.memoryview.__cinit__
ValueError: buffer source array is read-only
Problem description
For no good reason, unique tries to modify the input and fails if the input data is read only.
Perhaps should simply delegate to np.unique which does not modify the input.
Expected Output
Operation should not modify the input. Is rude to the caller and will doubtless lead to inexplicable concurrency issues.
Output of pd.show_versions()
Details
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit: None
python: 2.7.6.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 3.13.0-24-generic
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE: None.None
pandas: 0.22.0
pytest: None
pip: 9.0.1
setuptools: 36.0.1
Cython: 0.27.3
numpy: 1.13.3
scipy: 1.0.0
pyarrow: None
xarray: None
IPython: 5.3.0
sphinx: None
patsy: 0.2.1
dateutil: 2.6.1
pytz: 2017.2
blosc: None
bottleneck: None
tables: 3.1.1
numexpr: 2.6.2
feather: None
matplotlib: 2.0.2
openpyxl: 1.7.0
xlrd: 0.9.2
xlwt: 0.7.5
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: None
bs4: None
html5lib: 0.999999999
sqlalchemy: 1.0.15
pymysql: None
psycopg2: 2.7.3.2 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64)
jinja2: 2.9.6
s3fs: None
fastparquet: None
pandas_gbq: None
pandas_datareader: None