amol- commented on code in PR #12754:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12754#discussion_r843675028
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python/pyarrow/table.pxi:
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@@ -357,6 +509,29 @@ cdef class ChunkedArray(_PandasConvertible):
Returns
-------
cast : Array or ChunkedArray
+
+ Examples
+ --------
+ >>> import pyarrow as pa
+ >>> n_legs = pa.chunked_array([[2, 2, 4], [4, 5, 100]])
+ >>> n_legs.type
+ DataType(int64)
+ >>> n_legs.cast(pa.duration('s')).type
+ DurationType(duration[s])
+ >>> n_legs.cast(pa.duration('s'))
+ <pyarrow.lib.ChunkedArray object at ...>
+ [
+ [
+ 2,
+ 2,
+ 4
+ ],
+ [
+ 4,
+ 5,
+ 100
+ ]
+ ]
Review Comment:
This is a bit unclear.
I think it might improve if we assign the output of `cast` to some variable
and show that the type of the variable changed. Like
```
>>> n_legs_seconds = n_lefts.cast(pa.duration("s"))
>>> n_legs_seconds.type
DurationType(duration[s])
```
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