[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2856?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16545428#comment-16545428
]
Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-2856:
-------------------------------------
I'm inclined to agree with [~pitrou] on this. Raising could also potentially
expose the user to issues caused by small floating point errors
> [Python/C++] Array constructor should not truncate floats when casting to int
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-2856
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2856
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0
> Reporter: Florian Jetter
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.10.0
>
>
> I would expect the following code to raise instead of truncating the float
> {code}
> In [4]: pa.array([1.9], type=pa.int8())
> Out[4]:
> <pyarrow.lib.Int8Array object at 0x113455e58>
> [
> 1
> ]
> {code}
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v7.6.3#76005)
