jorisvandenbossche commented on issue #15053:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15053#issuecomment-2317032347
Hmm, ok so it seems, based on the single example above, we missed how Python
actually works .. It doesn't just align on the right side (e.g `'XXbbX'`), but
so apparently they align on the left or right depending on whether the total
width is odd or even .. (maybe a bit similar like round-to-even logic?)
One lucky part might be that this addition in pyarrow might not completely
miss the point, because I think we can mimic that behaviour in pandas exactly
(if we want), by doing something like:
```python
if width % 2 == 0:
# width is even
lean_left = True
else:
lean_left = False
pc.utf8_center(arr, width, padding=fillchar,
lean_left_on_odd_padding=lean_left)
```
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