A. Coady created ARROW-18432:
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Summary: [Python] Array constructor doesn't support arrow scalars.
Key: ARROW-18432
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-18432
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Python
Affects Versions: 10.0.1
Reporter: A. Coady
{code:python}
pa.array([pa.scalar(0)])
ArrowInvalid: Could not convert <pyarrow.Int64Scalar: 0> with type
pyarrow.lib.Int64Scalar: did not recognize Python value type when inferring an
Arrow data type
pa.array([pa.scalar(0)], 'int64')
ArrowInvalid: Could not convert <pyarrow.Int64Scalar: 0> with type
pyarrow.lib.Int64Scalar: tried to convert to int64{code}
It seems odd that the array constructors don't recognize their own scalars.
In practice, a list of scalars has to be converted with `.as_py()` just to be
converted back, and that also loses the type information.
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