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BUG?: Series.any / Series.all behavior for pyarrow vs. non-pyarrow empty/all-NA #51624

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import pandas as pd

for dtype in ["bool", "boolean", "boolean[pyarrow]"]:
    ser = pd.Series([], dtype=dtype)
    print(dtype, ser.any(), ser.all())

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bool False True
boolean False True
boolean[pyarrow] <NA> <NA>

At the moment Series.any and Series.all have inconsistent behavior for pyarrow vs. non-pyarrow dtypes for empty or all null data. The pyarrow behavior is coming from pyarrow.compute.any and pyarrow.compute.all which return null in these cases. I suspect different behavior here within pandas is likely to be problematic and confusing. Is it OK to diverge from pyarrow here in order to be more consistent within pandas?

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Probably to match the behavior of non-pyarrow types

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