jonded94 opened a new pull request, #45471:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/45471
### Rationale for this change
Currently, unfortunately `MapScalar`/`Array` types are not deserialized into
proper Python `dict`s, which is unfortunate since this breaks "roundtrips" from
Python -> Arrow -> Python:
```
import pyarrow as pa
schema = pa.schema([pa.field('x', pa.map_(pa.string(), pa.int64()))])
data = [{'x': {'a': 1}}]
pa.RecordBatch.from_pylist(data, schema=schema).to_pylist()
# [{'x': [('a', 1)]}]
```
This is especially bad when storing TiBs of deeply nested data (think of
lists in structs in maps...) that were created from Python and serialized into
Arrow/Parquet, since they can't be read in again with native `pyarrow` methods
without doing extremely ugly and computationally costly workarounds.
### What changes are included in this PR?
A new parameter `maps_as_pydicts` is introduced to `to_pylist`, `to_pydict`,
`as_py` which will allow proper roundtrips:
```
import pyarrow as pa
schema = pa.schema([pa.field('x', pa.map_(pa.string(), pa.int64()))])
data = [{'x': {'a': 1}}]
pa.RecordBatch.from_pylist(data,
schema=schema).to_pylist(maps_as_pydicts=True)
# [{'x': {'a': 1}}]
```
### Are these changes tested?
Yes. There are tests for `to_pylist` and `to_pydict` included for
`pyarrow.Table`, whilst low-level `MapScalar` and especially a nesting with
`ListScalar` and `StructScalar` is tested.
Also, duplicate keys now should throw an error, which is also tested for.
### Are there any user-facing changes?
No callsites should be broken, simlpy a new kwarg is added.
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