westonpace commented on a change in pull request #63:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-cookbook/pull/63#discussion_r702143914
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File path: python/source/create.rst
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@@ -7,6 +7,68 @@ Tensors and all other Arrow entities.
.. contents::
+Creating Arrays
+===============
+
+Arrow keeps data in continuous arrays optimised for memory footprint
+and SIMD analyses. In Python it's possible to build :class:`pyarrow.Array`
+starting from Python ``lists`` (or sequence types in general),
+``numpy`` arrays and ``pandas`` Series.
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ import pyarrow as pa
+
+ array = pa.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ print(array)
+
+.. testoutput::
+
+ [
+ 1,
+ 2,
+ 3,
+ 4,
+ 5
+ ]
+
+Arrays can also provide a ``mask`` to specify which values should
Review comment:
If you're planning on expanding support then I agree it should not be
mentioned here.
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