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Matthew Roeschke closed ARROW-16645.
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Resolution: Duplicate
> [Python] Allow pa.array/pa.chunked_array to infer pa.NA when in a non pyarrow
> container
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>
> Key: ARROW-16645
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16645
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 7.0.0
> Reporter: Matthew Roeschke
> Priority: Major
>
> Example:
>
>
> {code:java}
> In [15]: import pyarrow as pa
> In [16]: pa.array([1, pa.NA])
> ArrowInvalid: Could not convert <pyarrow.NullScalar: None> with type
> pyarrow.lib.NullScalar: did not recognize Python value type when inferring an
> Arrow data type{code}
>
> I would be great if this could be equivalent to
> {code:java}
> In [17]: pa.array([1, pa.NA], mask=[False, True])
> Out[17]:
> <pyarrow.lib.Int64Array object at 0x7fe49c172b80>
> [
> 1,
> null
> ]
> In [18]: pa.__version__
> Out[18]: '7.0.0'{code}
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