whatsnew

Author: jbrockmendel

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ Other API changes
 - :class:`Series` "flex" methods like :meth:`Series.add` no longer allow passing a :class:`DataFrame` for ``other``; use the DataFrame reversed method instead (:issue:`46179`)
 - :meth:`CategoricalIndex.append` no longer attempts to cast different-dtype indexes to the caller's dtype (:issue:`41626`)
 - :meth:`ExtensionDtype.construct_array_type` is now a regular method instead of a ``classmethod`` (:issue:`58663`)
+- Arithmetic operations between a :class:`Series`, :class:`Index`, or :class:`ExtensionArray` with a ``list`` now consistently wrap that list with ``np.array``. To do any other kind of type inference or casting, do so explicitly before operating (:issue:`62552`)
 - Comparison operations between :class:`Index` and :class:`Series` now consistently return :class:`Series` regardless of which object is on the left or right (:issue:`36759`)
 - Numpy functions like ``np.isinf`` that return a bool dtype when called on a :class:`Index` object now return a bool-dtype :class:`Index` instead of ``np.ndarray`` (:issue:`52676`)