that causes realignment, with a `fill_value`. Examples -------- Here's an example implementation, which relies on casting the extension array to object dtype. This uses the helper method :func:`pandas.api.extensions.take`. .. code-block:: python def take(self, indices, allow_fill=False, fill_value=None): from pandas.core.algorithms import take # If the ExtensionArray is backed by an ndarray, then # just pass that here instead of coercing to object. data = self.astype(object) if allow_fill and fill_value is None: fill_value = self.dtype.na_value # fill value should always be translated from the scalar # type for the array, to the physical storage type for # the data, before passing to take. result = take(data, indices, fill_value=fill_value, allow_fill=allow_fill) return self._from_sequence(result, dtype=self.dtype) Nr