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Joris Van den Bossche commented on ARROW-7066:
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I still don't fully like returning a chunked array from {{pa.array}}, but also
don't see an easy other solution to otherwise get the roundtrip working for eg
fletcher that uses chunked arrays (alternative would be to have an "internal"
version of {{pa.array(..)}} that allows this, and keep the public one strict,
but that is also rather ugly).
I will add some documentation update to the current open PR.
> [Python] support returning ChunkedArray from __arrow_array__ ?
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> Key: ARROW-7066
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7066
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> Time Spent: 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> The {{\_\_arrow_array\_\_}} protocol was added so that custom objects can
> define how they should be converted to a pyarrow Array (similar to numpy's
> {{\_\_array\_\_}}). This is then also used to support converting pandas
> DataFrames with columns using pandas' ExtensionArrays to a pyarrow Table (if
> the pandas ExtensionArray, such as nullable integer type, implements this
> {{\_\_arrow_array\_\_}} method).
> This last use case could also be useful for fletcher
> (https://github.com/xhochy/fletcher/, a package that implements pandas
> ExtensionArrays that wrap pyarrow arrays, so they can be stored as is in a
> pandas DataFrame).
> However, fletcher stores ChunkedArrays in ExtensionArry / the columns of a
> pandas DataFrame (to have a better mapping with a Table, where the columns
> also consist of chunked arrays). While we currently require that the return
> value of {{\_\_arrow_array\_\_}} is a pyarrow.Array.
> So I was wondering: could we relax this constraint and also allow
> ChunkedArray as return value?
> However, this protocol is currently called in the {{pa.array(..)}} function,
> which probably should keep returning an Array (and not ChunkedArray in
> certain cases).
> cc [~uwe]
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