jorisvandenbossche commented on code in PR #35356:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/35356#discussion_r1267649658
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python/pyarrow/array.pxi:
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@@ -2542,8 +2542,14 @@ cdef class DictionaryArray(Array):
def dictionary_decode(self):
"""
Decodes the DictionaryArray to an Array.
+
+ See :func:`pyarrow.compute.dictionary_decode` for usage.
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+ dictionary_decode : Array
"""
- return self.dictionary.take(self.indices)
+ return _pc().dictionary_decode(self)
Review Comment:
One other reason to keep the original is that it is _possible_ to build
pyarrow without compute, and then the old version would still work while using
the compute version would raise (although I am not sure how important this is,
as many things won't work in that case)
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