AlenkaF commented on a change in pull request #12311: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12311#discussion_r797380067
########## File path: python/pyarrow/table.pxi ########## @@ -1771,6 +1771,22 @@ cdef class Table(_PandasConvertible): raise TypeError(type(item)) result = pyarrow_wrap_table(CTable.Make(c_schema, columns)) + + # In case of an empty dataframe with RangeIndex -> create an empty Table with + # number of rows equal to Index length + if arrays == [] and schema is not None: + try: + kind = schema.pandas_metadata["index_columns"][0]["kind"] + if kind =="range": + start = schema.pandas_metadata["index_columns"][0]["start"] + stop = schema.pandas_metadata["index_columns"][0]["stop"] + step = schema.pandas_metadata["index_columns"][0]["step"] + n_rows = (stop - start - 1)//step + 1 + result = pyarrow_wrap_table( + CTable.MakeWithRows(c_schema, columns, n_rows)) + except IndexError: + pass Review comment: Good idea! Agree 💯 Will try it out now and see if I can make it work. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org