--------
        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)
        r