judahrand commented on code in PR #37665:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/37665#discussion_r1342485832
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python/pyarrow/_parquet.pyx:
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@@ -505,6 +506,204 @@ cdef class ColumnChunkMetaData(_Weakrefable):
return self.metadata.GetColumnIndexLocation().has_value()
+cdef class SortingColumn:
+ """
+ Sorting specification for a single column.
+
+ Returned by :meth:`RowGroupMetaData.sorting_columns` and used in
+ :class:`ParquetWriter` to specify the sort order of the data.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+ column_index : int
+ Index of column that data is sorted by.
+ descending : bool, default False
+ Whether column is sorted in descending order.
+ nulls_first : bool, default False
+ Whether null values appear before valid values.
+
+ Notes
+ -----
+
+ Column indices are zero-based, refer only to leaf fields, and are in
Review Comment:
This is made clear in the docstrings of the Parquet Writer:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/5db4e8e243ec8ca6724252bca7f478a0c417e76e/python/pyarrow/parquet/core.py#L885-L888
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