pandas.array(data: Sequence[object], dtype: Union[str, numpy.dtype, pandas.core.dtypes.base.ExtensionDtype, NoneType] = None, copy: bool = True)

# importing packages
import pandas
  
# create Pandas array with dtype string
pd_arr = pandas.array(data=[1,2,3,4,5],dtype=str)
  
# print the formed array
print(pd_arr)

<PandasArray>
['1', '2', '3', '4', '5']
Length: 5, dtype: str32

# importing packages
import pandas
import numpy
  
# create Pandas array with dtype from numpy
pd_arr = pandas.array(data=['1', '2', '3', '4', '5'],
                      dtype=numpy.int8)
  
# print the formed array
print(pd_arr)

<PandasArray>
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Length: 5, dtype: int8