[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16048?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
]
Antoine Pitrou updated ARROW-16048:
-----------------------------------
Summary: [Python] Null buffers with Pickle protocol (was: [PyArrow] Null
buffers with Pickle protocol.)
> [Python] Null buffers with Pickle protocol
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-16048
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16048
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Micah Kornfield
> Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 8.0.0
>
> Time Spent: 1.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> When underlying buffers are null they populate the buffer protocol ".buf"
> value with a null value. In some cases this can violate contracts [asserted
> in
> cpython|https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/882d8096c262a5945e0cfdd706e5db3ad2b73543/Modules/_pickle.c#L1072].
> It might be best to always return an empty non-null buffer when the
> underlying buffer is null.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.20.7#820007)
