BUG: Add tests and edit docs for #63112

Author: antareepsarkar

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ Other
 ^^^^^
 - Bug in :class:`DataFrame` when passing a ``dict`` with a NA scalar and ``columns`` that would always return ``np.nan`` (:issue:`57205`)
 - Bug in :class:`Series` ignoring errors when trying to convert :class:`Series` input data to the given ``dtype`` (:issue:`60728`)
+- Bug in :func:`array` where it did not always raise an error when the passed data was not like 1D. (:issue:`63112`)
 - Bug in :func:`eval` on :class:`ExtensionArray` on including division ``/`` failed with a ``TypeError``. (:issue:`58748`)
 - Bug in :func:`eval` where method calls on binary operations like ``(x + y).dropna()`` would raise ``AttributeError: 'BinOp' object has no attribute 'value'`` (:issue:`61175`)
 - Bug in :func:`eval` where the names of the :class:`Series` were not preserved when using ``engine="numexpr"``. (:issue:`10239`)

pandas/tests/arrays/test_array.py

@@ -460,7 +460,21 @@ def test_nd_raises(data):
         pd.array(data, dtype="int64")
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("data", [[["a"], ["b"]]])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "data",
+    [
+        # string 2D
+        [["a"], ["b"]],
+        # int 2D
+        [[1], [2]],
+        # float 2D
+        [[1.0], [2.0]],
+        # mixed 2D
+        [[1, 2], ["a", "b"]],
+        # mixed 3D
+        [[[1]], [["a"]], [[3.14]]],
+    ],
+)
 def test_not_1D_like_raises(data):
     with pytest.raises(TypeError, match="Values must be a 1D list-like"):
         pd.array(data, dtype=pd.StringDtype())