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Joris Van den Bossche reassigned ARROW-13696:
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Assignee: Jason Reid
> [Python] Support for MapType with Fields
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> Key: ARROW-13696
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13696
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 5.0.0
> Reporter: Jason Reid
> Assignee: Jason Reid
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 6.0.0
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> Time Spent: 1h 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Ability to create a
> [MapType|https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.map_.html]
> object passing Field types instead of DataTypes for the key_type and
> item_type arguments. Something similar to what is possible for
> [ListType|https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.list_.html#pyarrow.list_]
> in python or what seems to be possible from the [cpp implementation of
> MapType|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/type.cc#L424]
> (untested).
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