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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARROW-1705:
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Github user wesm commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/1217
Hi, we do not yet support the syntax you are using for creating an array of
structs. After adding missing square brackets:
```
In [2]: pa.array([{"foo":"bar"}, {"foo":"bar"}, {"foo":"bar"}])
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ArrowNotImplementedError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-5383db65d4fd> in <module>()
----> 1 pa.array([{"foo":"bar"}, {"foo":"bar"}, {"foo":"bar"}])
/home/wesm/code/arrow/python/pyarrow/array.pxi in pyarrow.lib.array
(/home/wesm/code/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/lib.cxx:25024)()
/home/wesm/code/arrow/python/pyarrow/array.pxi in
pyarrow.lib._sequence_to_array
(/home/wesm/code/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/lib.cxx:23628)()
/home/wesm/code/arrow/python/pyarrow/error.pxi in pyarrow.lib.check_status
(/home/wesm/code/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/lib.cxx:8242)()
ArrowNotImplementedError:
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/python/builtin_convert.cc:740 code:
InferArrowTypeAndSize(obj, &size, &type)
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/python/builtin_convert.cc:319 code:
InferArrowType(obj, out_type)
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/python/builtin_convert.cc:299 code:
seq_visitor.Visit(obj)
/home/wesm/code/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/python/builtin_convert.cc:180 code:
VisitElem(ref, level)
No type inference for dicts
```
I would like to support this, but implementing it is quite some work.
Patches are welcome. I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1705
to track the feature request.
> [Python] Create StructArray (+ type inference) from sequence of dicts
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-1705
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1705
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Labels: pull-request-available
>
> See https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/1217
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