Maarten Breddels created ARROW-3685:
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Summary: Better roundtrip between numpy and arrow binary array
Key: ARROW-3685
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3685
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Python
Affects Versions: 0.11.1
Reporter: Maarten Breddels
I'm working on getting support for arrow in vaex (out of core dataframe library
for Python) in this PR:
[https://github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex/pull/116]
And I fixed length binary arrays for numpy (say dtype='S42') will be converted
to a non-fixed length array. Trying to convert that back to numpy will fail,
since there is no such conversion.
It makes more sense to convert dtype='S42', to an arrow array with
pyarrow.binary(42) type. As I do in:
https://github.com/maartenbreddels/vaex/blob/4b4facb64fea9f83593ce0f0b82fc26ddf96b506/packages/vaex-arrow/vaex_arrow/convert.py#L4
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