Antoine Pitrou created ARROW-4563:
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Summary: [Python] pa.decimal128 should validate inputs
Key: ARROW-4563
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4563
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Python
Affects Versions: 0.12.0
Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
The precision shouldn't be higher than 38, but 39 is happily accepted currently:
{code:python}
>>> ty = pa.decimal128(39, 0)
>>>
>>> arr = pa.array([2**127], type=ty)
>>>
>>> arr
>>>
<pyarrow.lib.Decimal128Array object at 0x7f9b89444138>
[
-170141183460469231731687303715884105728
]
{code}
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