cleanup

Author: jorisvandenbossche

pandas/core/indexes/base.py

@@ -6221,10 +6221,6 @@ def _maybe_downcast_for_indexing(self, other: Index) -> tuple[Index, Index]:
                 # let's instead try with a straight Index
                 self = Index(self._values)
 
-        # elif self.dtype == "string" and other.dtype == "object":
-        #   if lib.is_string_array(other._values, skipna=True): # type: ignore[arg-type]
-        #         return self, other.astype(self.dtype)
-
         if not is_object_dtype(self.dtype) and is_object_dtype(other.dtype):
             # Reverse op so we dont need to re-implement on the subclasses
             other, self = other._maybe_downcast_for_indexing(self)