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Uwe Korn commented on ARROW-7071: --------------------------------- API-wise I would prefer Wes' suggestion. I have had the use case before that I need to use a different validity bitmap but in my case I only added nulls and didn't expose undefined values. > [Python] Add Array convenience method to create "masked" view with different > validity bitmap > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-7071 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7071 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Python > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.0.0 > > > NB: I'm not sure what kind of pitfalls there might be if replacing an > existing validity bitmap and exposing some previously-null values -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)