Allow passing len-1 array for x and y coordinates in Point(..) (compat with 1.8)

[jorisvandenbossche]

Closes #1587

[coveralls]

Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 3350480088

• 3 of 3 (100.0%) changed or added relevant lines in 1 file are covered.
• 8 unchanged lines in 2 files lost coverage.
• Overall coverage increased (+0.02%) to 84.655%

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Files with Coverage Reduction	New Missed Lines	%
shapely/geometry/linestring.py	2	92.16%
shapely/geometry/base.py	6	82.31%

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Change from base Build 3343354302:	0.02%
Covered Lines:	2157
Relevant Lines:	2548

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[martinfleis]

I think that this has introduced a regression geopandas CI is now picking - https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/actions/runs/3351235289/jobs/5552549617

[martinfleis]

GeoPandas CI fails on this

Point([(2, 3), (11, 4), (7, 2), (8, 9), (1, 13)])

Which I'd say is a correct behaviour. I don't really understand what is the intention of this line. Shapely 1.8 creates POINT (2 3) but I'd say that raising ValueError: Invalid values passed to Point constructor, which is the behaviour of 2.0b2 is correct. But it should be noted, that it is a change of behaviour.

[jorisvandenbossche]

@martinfleis thanks for the note. I am also unsure why this behaviour existed that way, and I think it is a good change. But a change indeed, so will add it to the release notes.

[jorisvandenbossche]

-> #1600