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Daniel Nugent edited comment on ARROW-5379 at 9/24/19 8:30 PM:
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Is this actually something that would be appropriate to implement with
extension types? It just requires that the mask parameter of pa.Array actually
be used with Pandas integer columns, right?
was (Author: nugend):
Is this actually something that would be appropriate to implement with
extension types? It just requires that the mask actually be used with Pandas
integer columns.
> [Python] support pandas' nullable Integer type in from_pandas
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> Key: ARROW-5379
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5379
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
> Priority: Major
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> From https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/4168. We should add support for
> pandas' nullable Integer extension dtypes, as those could map nicely to
> arrows integer types.
> Ideally this happens in a generic way though, and not specific for this
> extension type, which is discussed in ARROW-5271
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