AlenkaF commented on a change in pull request #12311:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12311#discussion_r800638755



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File path: python/pyarrow/table.pxi
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@@ -1779,15 +1796,41 @@ cdef class Table(_PandasConvertible):
         <pyarrow.lib.Table object at 0x7f05d1fb1b40>
         """
         from pyarrow.pandas_compat import dataframe_to_arrays
-        arrays, schema = dataframe_to_arrays(
+        arrays, schema, n_rows = dataframe_to_arrays(
             df,
             schema=schema,
             preserve_index=preserve_index,
             nthreads=nthreads,
             columns=columns,
             safe=safe
         )
-        return cls.from_arrays(arrays, schema=schema)
+
+        cdef:
+            vector[shared_ptr[CChunkedArray]] arr
+            shared_ptr[CSchema] c_schema
+        # If df is empty but row index is not, create empty Table with rows >0
+        if n_rows:
+            names = None
+            metadata = None
+            converted_arrays = _sanitize_arrays(arrays, names, schema, 
metadata,
+                                                &c_schema)
+            arr.reserve(0)
+            for item in converted_arrays:
+                if isinstance(item, Array):
+                    arr.push_back(
+                        make_shared[CChunkedArray](
+                            (<Array> item).sp_array
+                        )
+                    )
+                elif isinstance(item, ChunkedArray):
+                    arr.push_back((<ChunkedArray> item).sp_chunked_array)
+                else:
+                    raise TypeError(type(item))

Review comment:
       Creating an empty cython vector and converting schema to cython is 
simplified now, thank you for the live help!




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