From 7dc353b61ee1c9393d87c79e91c23ab03fe30a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Ji <23487320+weiji14@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:31:55 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Revert support of pyarrow.array inputs to put_strings

---
 pygmt/clib/session.py | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pygmt/clib/session.py b/pygmt/clib/session.py
index b8d6ff6feb1..10c8770adaa 100644
--- a/pygmt/clib/session.py
+++ b/pygmt/clib/session.py
@@ -1029,8 +1029,7 @@ def put_strings(self, dataset: ctp.c_void_p, family: str, strings: np.ndarray):
         Raises
         ------
         GMTCLibError
-            If given invalid input or ``GMT_Put_Strings`` exits with
-            status != 0.
+            If given invalid input or ``GMT_Put_Strings`` exits with a non-zero status.
         """
         c_put_strings = self.get_libgmt_func(
             "GMT_Put_Strings",
@@ -1051,8 +1050,7 @@ def put_strings(self, dataset: ctp.c_void_p, family: str, strings: np.ndarray):
             self.session_pointer, family_int, dataset, strings_pointer
         )
         if status != 0:
-            dtype = strings.dtype if hasattr(strings, "dtype") else type(strings)
-            msg = f"Failed to put strings of type {dtype} into dataset."
+            msg = f"Failed to put strings of type {strings.dtype} into dataset."
             raise GMTCLibError(msg)
 
     def put_matrix(self, dataset: ctp.c_void_p, matrix: np.ndarray, pad: int = 0):