aboderinsamuel commented on code in PR #50203:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/50203#discussion_r3477616014


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python/pyarrow/src/arrow/python/python_to_arrow.cc:
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@@ -908,13 +908,30 @@ class PyListConverter : public ListConverter<T, 
PyConverter, PyConverterTrait> {
 
   Status AppendNdarray(PyObject* value) {
     PyArrayObject* ndarray = reinterpret_cast<PyArrayObject*>(value);
-    if (PyArray_NDIM(ndarray) != 1) {
-      return Status::Invalid("Can only convert 1-dimensional array values");
-    }
     if (PyArray_ISBYTESWAPPED(ndarray)) {
       // TODO
       return Status::NotImplemented("Byte-swapped arrays not supported");
     }
+    OwnedRef flattened;
+    if (PyArray_NDIM(ndarray) != 1) {
+      // GH-49644: a fixed-size list (e.g. fixed-shape-tensor storage) is built
+      // from a multi- or 0-dimensional array by flattening it in C order.
+      if (this->list_type_->id() != Type::FIXED_SIZE_LIST) {
+        return Status::Invalid("Can only convert 1-dimensional array values of 
",
+                               this->list_type_->ToString(), " to a 
variable-sized list");
+      }

Review Comment:
   The type is interpolated via list_type_->ToString(), so the message reads 
e.g. "Can only convert 1-dimensional array values of list<item: int32> to a 
variable-sized list", the type isn't empty. Keeping this phrasing as it follows 
the maintainer's requested wording on the PR.



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