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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-1908:
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We should create a separate issue about this. [~cpcloud] is right that allowing
duplicate columns makes things more difficult in innumerable ways (e.g.
SQL-style computing becomes basically impossible)
> [Python] Construction of arrow table from pandas DataFrame with duplicate
> column names crashes
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> Key: ARROW-1908
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1908
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 0.7.1
> Reporter: Phillip Cloud
> Assignee: Phillip Cloud
> Labels: pandas, pull-request-available, python
> Fix For: 0.8.0
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> [~jorisvandenbossche]'s example here:
> https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/18201#issuecomment-350259248 shows
> that a {{pyarrow.Table}} with duplicate column names can be constructed.
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