[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1605) [Python] pyarrow.array should be able to yield smaller integer types without an explicit cast

[Wes McKinney (JIRA)]

Wes McKinney created ARROW-1605:
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             Summary: [Python] pyarrow.array should be able to yield smaller 
integer types without an explicit cast
                 Key: ARROW-1605
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1605
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Python
            Reporter: Wes McKinney
             Fix For: 0.8.0


e.g. {{pyarrow.array([1, 2, 3], type='int8')}}



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