pitrou commented on a change in pull request #11076:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11076#discussion_r702809389



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File path: cpp/src/arrow/python/inference.cc
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@@ -354,12 +354,17 @@ class TypeInferrer {
       *keep_going = make_unions_;
     } else if (PyArray_CheckAnyScalarExact(obj)) {
       RETURN_NOT_OK(VisitDType(PyArray_DescrFromScalar(obj), keep_going));
-    } else if (PyList_Check(obj)) {
-      RETURN_NOT_OK(VisitList(obj, keep_going));
+    } else if (PySet_Check(obj) || (Py_TYPE(obj) == &PyDictValues_Type)) {

Review comment:
       Another possibility is to be opportunistic: if the current element was a 
`str`, then it's quite likely the next element will also be a `str`. So you can 
use a `switch/case` (keyed by an integer enum value?) to try to make the common 
case faster.
   




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