Backport PR #48550 on branch 1.5.x (TST: remove 2D tests irrelevant f…

…or pyarrow) (#48554)

Backport PR #48550: TST: remove 2D tests irrelevant for pyarrow

Co-authored-by: jbrockmendel <jbrockmendel@gmail.com>

pandas/tests/extension/base/dim2.py

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 
 
 class Dim2CompatTests(BaseExtensionTests):
+    # Note: these are ONLY for ExtensionArray subclasses that support 2D arrays.
+    #  i.e. not for pyarrow-backed EAs.
+
     def test_transpose(self, data):
         arr2d = data.repeat(2).reshape(-1, 2)
         shape = arr2d.shape

pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py

@@ -319,20 +319,6 @@ def test_from_sequence_of_strings_pa_array(self, data, request):
         tm.assert_extension_array_equal(result, data)
 
 
-@pytest.mark.xfail(
-    raises=NotImplementedError, reason="pyarrow.ChunkedArray backing is 1D."
-)
-class TestDim2Compat(base.Dim2CompatTests):
-    pass
-
-
-@pytest.mark.xfail(
-    raises=NotImplementedError, reason="pyarrow.ChunkedArray backing is 1D."
-)
-class TestNDArrayBacked2D(base.NDArrayBacked2DTests):
-    pass
-
-
 class TestGetitemTests(base.BaseGetitemTests):
     @pytest.mark.xfail(
         reason=(