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SHIMA Tatsuya commented on ARROW-12099:
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It seems related to ARROW-8813.
tidyr::unnest in R works very well, and it would be great to have this feature
available in Arrow.
> [Python] Explode array column
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> Key: ARROW-12099
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12099
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Malthe Borch
> Priority: Major
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> In Apache Spark,
> [explode|https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/sql/index.html#explode]
> separates the elements of an array column (or expression) into multiple row.
> Note that each explode works at the top-level only (not recursively).
> This would also work with the existing
> [flatten|https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.Table.html#pyarrow.Table.flatten]
> method to allow fully unnesting a
> [pyarrow.StructArray|https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.StructArray.html#pyarrow-structarray].
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