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Joris Van den Bossche commented on ARROW-7362:
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There was some discussion about this in ARROW-7031:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5759, where it was said to not slice the
values.
Personally, I think it would be nice to have easy python access to the sliced
values as well, but I also find it somewhat confusing to have {{.flatten()}}
and {{.values}} differ.
> [Python] ListArray.flatten() should take care of slicing offsets
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> Key: ARROW-7362
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7362
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Zhuo Peng
> Assignee: Zhuo Peng
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently ListArray.flatten() simply returns the child array. If a ListArray
> is a slice of another ListArray, they will share the same child array,
> however the expected behavior (I think) of flatten() should be returning an
> Array that's a concatenation of all the sub-lists in the ListArray, so the
> slicing offset should be taken into account.
>
> For example:
> a = pa.array([[1], [2], [3]])
> assert a.flatten().equals(pa.array([1,2,3]))
> # expected:
> a.slice(1).flatten().equals(pa.array([2, 3]))
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