jorisvandenbossche commented on a change in pull request #12010:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12010#discussion_r781327109
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File path: python/pyarrow/table.pxi
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@@ -1844,6 +1967,30 @@ cdef class Table(_PandasConvertible):
return ordered_dict(entries)
+ def to_pylist(self):
+ """
+ Convert the Table to a list of rows / dictionaries.
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+ list
+
+ Examples
+ --------
+ >>> import pyarrow as pa
+ >>> table = pa.table([
+ ... pa.array([1, 2]),
+ ... pa.array(["a", "b"])
+ ... ], names=["int", "str"])
+ >>> table.to_pylist()
+ [{'int': 1, 'str': 'a'}, {'int': 2, 'str': 'b'}]
+ """
+ pydict = self.to_pydict()
+ names = self.schema.names
+ pylist = [{column: pydict[column][row] if column in pydict else None
for column in names}
Review comment:
Ah, missed on, the same simplification can be done here as well
```suggestion
pylist = [{column: pydict[column][row] for column in names}
```
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