Phillip Cloud created ARROW-2157: ------------------------------------ Summary: Decimal arrays cannot be constructed from Python lists Key: ARROW-2157 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2157 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Bug Components: Python Affects Versions: 0.8.0 Reporter: Phillip Cloud Assignee: Phillip Cloud Fix For: 0.9.0
{code} In [14]: pa.array([Decimal('1')]) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ArrowInvalid Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-14-458b6561866e> in <module>() ----> 1 pa.array([Decimal('1')]) array.pxi in pyarrow.lib.array() array.pxi in pyarrow.lib._sequence_to_array() error.pxi in pyarrow.lib.check_status() ArrowInvalid: Error inferring Arrow data type for collection of Python objects. Got Python object of type Decimal but can only handle these types: bool, float, integer, date, datetime, bytes, unicode {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)